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“ An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust. ”

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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

~ Anthony Burgess

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

~ Anthony Burgess

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

~ Anthony Burgess

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

~ Anthony Burgess