You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly—that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.
 Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962). copy citation

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Author Anthony Burgess
Source A Clockwork Orange
Topic conditioning pain
Date 1962
Language English
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