In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be...
If all you bastards are on the side of God then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.
Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously...
Audiences did not exactly clamour for their money back, but they wondered why Kubrick left out the dénouement. People wrote to me about this—indeed much of my later life has been expended on Xeroxing...
As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindle...
And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who hadall the kots and koshkas had passed on to a better world in one of the cityhospitals. I'd cracked her a bit too hard, like. Well,...
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 t...
A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show.
Well well well. What makes, bratty. What gives, this fine brightmiddle of the nochy? He said: I'll give you just ten seconds to wipe that stupid grin off of yourface. Then I want you to listen. Well,...
Toplumun onayladığı eylemlerin dışına çıkamıyorsun, sadece iyilik yapabilen küçük bir makinesin. Ayrıca şu marjinal koşullanmalar meselesinin… içyüzünü açıkça görüyorum. Müzik ve cinsellik, edebiyat v...
There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.
The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Greatness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Ser bom pode não ser agradável, 6655321. Pode ser horrível ser bom. E quando digo isto a você, eu compreendo como soa contraditório. Eu sei que vou passar muitas noites sem dormir por causa disto. O q...
Non si chiedono mica qual è la causa della bontà, e allora perchè il contrario?
Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo
Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.
Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
I was eighteen now, just gone. Eighteen was not a young age. At eighteen old Wolfgang Amadeus had written concertos and symphonies and operas and oratorios and all that cal, no, not cal, heavenly musi...
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.