Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. - Anthony Burgess - Quotesmemo.com

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All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.

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Anthony Burgess

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

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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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