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Anthony Burgess

NOUN
  1. English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)

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  • What is so harmful about this mixture of real-life street-tragedy and low-rent entertainment is that "COPS" and its brethren reduce our resistance to the kind of dehumanized "ultra-violence" Anthony Burgess hypothesized in his then-seemingly satiric 1962 novel "A Clockwork Orange. Dying and Living in COPS America
  • Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of an elite using high culture as a "punitive slap on the chops" for low youth has come true.
  • It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. Anthony Burgess 
  • If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. Anthony Burgess 
  • The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
  • Considerations such as the above serve to explain why writers and film directors ‎ since George Orwell's 1984 have depicted the future, not as paradise regained, but as a ‎ series of dystopias and cacotopias (perhaps the most memorable, after Orwell's haunting ‎ novel, was Anthony Burgess's more 'lyrical' cacotopia, "A Clockwork Orange", which ‎ found the perfect director in Stanley Kubrick, the misanthrope of the twentieth century). ‎ The Incoherence of Progress
  • Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess 
  • Writers such as John Fowles, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess have also seen dips in their posthumous reputations, but are likely to be reassessed. Bibliophilia for Beginners
  • Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess 
  • Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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