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Anthony BurgessAnthony Burgess frasi celebri
“Non si chiedono mica quale è la causa della bontà. e allora perché il contrario?”
A Clockwork Orange
Arancia Meccanica
Variante: Non si chiedono mica qual è la causa della bontà, e allora perchè il contrario?
Origine: Lettera al Los Angeles Times http://www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/am/burgess.html, 13 febbraio 1972. Traduzione dall'inglese come in Arancia Meccanica, Einaudi Tascabili 351
Anthony Burgess Frasi e Citazioni
Anthony Burgess, Corriere della Sera, 29-4-1978
Arancia Meccanica
Anthony Burgess: Frasi in inglese

“What I do I do because I like to do.”
Variante: But what I do I do because I like to do.
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Variante: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)
Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Variante: The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
"The Ball is Free to Roll"
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Origine: Homage To Qwert Yuiop: Essays
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
Variante: When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“What's it going to be then, eh?”
Origine: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
Origine: The Wanting Seed
“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“I was always on my oddy knocky.”
Origine: A Clockwork Orange
“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
Origine: The Wanting Seed