Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, … - Anthony Burgess

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To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

Anthony Burgess

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

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Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

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I was cured all right.

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And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

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How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

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