A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
Anthony BurgessColonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
Anthony BurgessIt's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
Anthony BurgessAs a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
Anthony BurgessThe trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.
Anthony Burgess