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Aldous Huxley, the author of 'Brave New World' and 'The Doors of Perception,' requested 100 milligrams of LSD from his wife while on his deathbed. She obliged and he died on the same day as CS Lewis, Anthony Burgess, and JFK.
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Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, was so fascinated by the imagined slang language he created, he compiled a dictionary of all its words. Thought to be lost, the dictionary of Burgesses' slang was rediscovered in 2017
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Anthony burgess writer of a clock work orange was told he probably had a brain tumor and would survive only a year. Luckily, this was a misdiagnosis that lead him to turn to writing and produced 5 novels in one year
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The only money Anthony Burgess made directly off the 1971 adaptation of his book, A Clockwork Orange, was the $500 he was paid for the film rights.
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John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day.
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Anthony Burgess, the author of 'A Clockwork Orange', also wrote 'Jesus of Nazareth'.
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Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, claimed that the novel's inspiration was his first wife Lynne's beating by a gang of drunk American servicemen stationed in England during World War II.
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In Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Orange the fictional argot Nadsat uses 'Horrorshow' with the meaning 'good' as a play on Russian хорошо (khorosho)
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Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given one year to live. Troubled by the thought of leaving his wife without income, he quit his teaching job and wrote five novels in the next year. Then he lived on for 33 years.
