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I'll kiss you every hour... of everyday — B.C. Burgess

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help. — Gelett Burgess

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. — Anthony Burgess

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

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess

That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was, was all the time I needed... - Harry Bemis — Burgess Meredith

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. — Gelett Burgess

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar — Melvin Burgess

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. — Gelett Burgess

It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show. — Anthony Burgess

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. — Gelett Burgess

Dare to wear your soul on the outside! — Gloria Burgess

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them. — Melvin Burgess

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her. — Melvin Burgess

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet. — Anthony Burgess

I didn't think; I experimented. — Anthony Burgess

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. — Anthony Burgess

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. — Anthony Burgess

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it. — Anthony Burgess

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. — Anthony Burgess

Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly? — Anthony Burgess

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs. — Sonny Burgess

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed, — Anthony Burgess

We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure. — Anthony Burgess

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. — Anthony Burgess

I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies. — Anthony Burgess

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion — Catrina Burgess

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. — Anthony Burgess

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are — Melvin Burgess

They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere. — Gemma Burgess

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?" — Gelett Burgess

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright. — Anthony Burgess

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. — Gelett Burgess

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs — Anthony Burgess

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. — Anthony Burgess

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now. — Anthony Burgess

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out. — Burgess Meredith

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter. — Gelett Burgess

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen — Anthony Burgess

People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean? — Melvin Burgess

That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people. — Thornton W. Burgess

That's the spark I've been looking for. The spark is the feeling that you were born to be this happy. And that's how I feel right now. — Gemma Burgess

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. — Anthony Burgess

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say. — Anthony Burgess

The writer's life seethes within but not without. — Anthony Burgess

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. — Anthony Burgess

Coowie it's the happiest way of saying hello — Michael John Burgess

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. — Anthony Burgess

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. — Anthony Burgess

Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it. — Anthony Burgess

It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more. — Anthony Burgess

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?. — Anthony Burgess

This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse. — Thornton Burgess

It's not revealing, it's informative. — Gemma Burgess

If it's a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I'll choose being a bastard any time. — Melvin Burgess

What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed. — Anthony Burgess

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. — Gelett Burgess

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language — Anthony Burgess

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. — Anthony Burgess

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it. — Clive James

Humankind has endless potential, but shows an endless capacity to fall short of that promise. — Mark E. Burgess

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. — Mitchell Burgess

What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work. — Thornton W. Burgess

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway. — Gelett Burgess

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto. — Gelett Burgess

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. — Anthony Burgess

Passion is like an intoxicating drug but without the dangers and side effects. — Dave Burgess

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. — Michael Burgess

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god — Anthony Burgess

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess

Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck. — Anthony Burgess

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. — Anthony Burgess

Connection was the thing, whether through bed, bottle, grand inquisitorial session. — Anthony Burgess

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. — Gelett Burgess

And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom. — Anthony Burgess

It's always easier to walk away. — Gemma Burgess

Love is a secret society, a community for two. — Melvin Burgess

What's it going to be then, eh? — Anthony Burgess

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin. — Sonny Burgess

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. — Anthony Burgess

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness. — Anthony Burgess

Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors. — Anthony Burgess

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix. — Michael Burgess

And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since. — Tony Burgess

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies. — Gelett Burgess

A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show. — Anthony Burgess

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once. — Melvin Burgess

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess

Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had. — Anthony Burgess

I've discovered the secret to successful singledom. I'm acting like a man. And it's working. — Gemma Burgess

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes. — Anthony Burgess

Civilised my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess