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“ ”What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
About Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing Like The Sun, Earthly Powers and The Kingdom Of The Wicked. He also produced critical works on Joyce, Lawrence, Hemingway and Shakespeare, and studies of language and of pornography.
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Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
Additional quotes by Anthony Burgess
Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others.
There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others