“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
― All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners
― All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners
“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.”
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