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“Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.”

Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess: Citations en anglais

“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“I was cured all right.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Variante: To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

“You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”

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“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Power power, everybody like wants power”

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Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique

A Clockwork Orange
Variante: Power, power, everybody like wants power

“Is this really true? If we take an average day in the life of the average man we seem to see very little evidence of concern with the sciences and the arts. The average man gets up, goes to work, eats his meals, reads the newspapers, watches television, goes to the cinema, goes to bed, sleeps, wakes up, starts all over again. Unless we happen to be professional scientists, laboratory experiments and formulae have ceased to have any meaning for most of us; unless we happen to be poets or painters or musicians—or teachers of literature, painting, and music—the arts seem to us to be only the concern of schoolchildren. And yet people have said, and people still say, that the great glories of our civilisation are the scientists and artists. Ancient Greece is remembered because of mathematicians like Euclid and Pythagoras, because of poets like Homer and dramatists like Sophocles. In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

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Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)

“It is generally felt that the educated man or woman should be able to read Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Lorca in the original - with, anyway, the crutch of a translation.”

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Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

“And now," Herod calmly said, "You can kill all the new-born…. Kill them all…. take your men and let your men take their swords. Make sure they're sharp. To Bethlehem. Hack. Lunge. Chop. Kill.”

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Fiction, Man of Nazareth (1979)

“Here we go again,’ he thought. ‘Drink and reminiscence. Another day of wasted time. They’re right when they say we drink too much out here. And we slobber too much over ourselves…. We’re all sorry for ourselves because we’re not big executives or artists or happily married men in a civilized temperate climate.”

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Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)

“If one does not wish to be dissatisfied with one’s lot at home, one ought to go where the flies and the stinks are, which means the Middle East. This is also a good way of reconciling oneself to one’s laws and police force and the probity of one’s magistrates. The really great British travellers, like Charles M. Doughty for instance, to say nothing of ‘Eothen’ Kinglake, always went East, but not too far East. When you get to Southeast Asia you find no dirt or flies but the suspicion that you are in a tropical paradise, and then you go to pieces. It is essential, when travelling, to feel that you belong to a superior civilization, and the lands of the Arabs lavishly grant opportunities to nourish this conviction….”

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Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya… And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai … He had been driven out of that Eden…because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“Her face was that of a boy gang-leader, smooth with the innocence of one who, by the same quirk as blinds a man to the mystery of whistling or riding a bicycle, has never mastered the art of affection or compassion or properly learned the moral dichotomy.”

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Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

“Everything off. I want to see you in your horrific potbellied hairy filthy nakedness.”

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Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)

“There was no real need…of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till’s guts.”

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Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“…he had to admit to a faint admiration (faint as angostura colouring gin and water)”

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Fiction, Devil of a State (1961)

“Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies…. Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.”

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Fiction, Man of Nazareth (1979)

“How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.”

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Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)

“You served here how long, Cornelius?’
‘Long enough to learn about what they believe. Not long enough to learn to speak their language well enough to get their confidence. Not long enough to learn how to read their books. Now I’ve three years before retirement and a measure of spare time for getting down to it.’
‘This, you know,’ Marcellus said, ‘is all wrong. You’re not here to get their confidence or read their books. They’re a colonized people. We’re here to give orders.
‘They’d rather die than obey some of the Roman orders. Besides, it’s laid down that their religion is inviolate…”

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Fiction, The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985)

“My darling one…. I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.”

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Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“Evidently, there is a political element in the attack on The Satanic Verses which has killed and injured good if obstreperous Muslims in Islamabad, though it may be dangerously blasphemous to suggest it. The Ayatollah Khomeini is probably within his self-elected rights in calling for the assassination of Salman Rushdie, or of anyone else for that matter, on his own holy ground. To order outraged sons of the Prophet to kill him, and the directors of Penguin Books, on British soil is tantamount to a jihad. It is a declaration of war on citizens of a free country, and as such it is a political act. It has to be countered by an equally forthright, if less murderous, declaration of defiance…. I do not think that even our British Muslims will be eager to read that great vindication of free speech, which is John Milton’s Areopagitica. Oliver Cromwell’s Republic proposed muzzling the press, and Milton replied by saying, in effect, that the truth must declare itself by battling with falsehood in the dust and heat…. I gain the impression that few of the protesting Muslims in Britain know directly what they are protesting against. Their Imams have told them that Mr Rushdie has published a blasphemous book and must be punished. They respond with sheeplike docility and wolflike aggression. They forgot what Nazis did to books … they shame a free country by denying free expression through the vindictive agency of bonfires…. If they do not like secular society, they must fly to the arms of the Ayatollah or some other self-righteous guardian of strict Islamic morality.”

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'Islam's Gangster Tactics', in the London Independent newspaper , 1989
Writing

“The Christian ecumenical movement will have reached its limit, meaning that Catholicism will have turned into Protestantism and Protestantism into agnosticism…. But Islam will not have lost any of its rigour…. Supernature abhors a supervacuum. With the death of institutional Christianity will come the spread of Islam.”

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Fiction, 1985 (1978)

“…the jeaned and rucksacked young I see on Continental trains or thumbing rides on motorways are not in search of the exotic. They are seeking confirmation that their own kind exists everywhere and denies the racial and cultural variety that used to be one of the joys of the world. If they want the exotic at all it is in the form of what they know well in their own lands through regular, though usually illegal, importation….”

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Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

“Sir, we are trying to work because we are having to take the examination in a very brief time from now, but the younger boys are not realizing the importance of our labours and they are creating veritable pandemoniums while we are immersed in our studies. To us who are their lawful and appointed superiors they are giving overmuch insolence, nor are they sufficiently overawed by our frequent threatenings. I would be taking it, sir, as inestimable favour if you would deliver harsh words and verbal punishing to them all, sir, especially the Malay boys, who are severely lacking in due respectfulness and incorrigible to discipline also.”

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Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)

“…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.”

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Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)

“But you like her, don’t you?’ asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?’ For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.”

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Fiction, The Worm and the Ring (1960)

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