Quote by: Anthony Burgess

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly - that business about marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.


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Author Bio


  • NameAnthony Burgess
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesJohn Anthony Burgess Wilson
  • BornFebruary 25, 1917
  • DiedNovember 22, 1993
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Translator; Screenwriter; Poet; Composer; Novelist
  • AwardsPrometheus Award - Hall Of Fame