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...the snarling, whining, pampered, analphabetic humanoids of Hollywood emerge as garbage irrelevantly gilded with adventitious photogeneity.
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…
The Right to an Answer (1960)
…of course, keep-fit people are no good in bed…
The Right to an Answer (1960)
'What's it going to be then, eh?'
A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Rosemary was only a spinster in the strict sense of denotation. She was eminently, eminently nubile.
Beds in the East (1959)
There was a silence. Outside, and most unfortunately, a boy could be heard calling to another boy: ‘Piss off, Cowie.’ Stern looks were fixed on Woolton.
The Worm and the Ring (1960)
There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.
Devil of a State (1961)
…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
Devil of a State (1961)
It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
Earthly Powers (1980)
...with Indians there is an unhealthy love of the law...
The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
...the prophet of harmless solace in a harsh world....
Beds in the East (1959)
…the whole world here breathed easy concupiscence…
The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).
The Right to an Answer (1960)
Despite Jesus's appearance on the earth to preach the doctrine of love, and despite the stout work of his disciples (all put to death in curiously ludic ways by the serious), it cannot be said that the kingdom of heaven he promised as a reward for love is as yet likely to overtake the kingdom of the serious, which we also may call the kingdom of Caesar.
Man of Nazareth (1979)
I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.
The Right to an Answer (1960)
Howarth began to see that, however much it was against one’s will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.
The Worm and the Ring (1960)
...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.
…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.
Devil of a State (1961)
...even the police discussed this violence as possibly coming within the scope of their terms of reference.
Beds in the East (1959)
…a fetid cabaret with a beer-bar, two houses of ill-fame disguised as coffee-shops…
Beds in the East (1959)