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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.

William Golding

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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Beast Claw Fear Know Mean No Pause Piggy
The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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People Person Philosopher Storyteller Theologian
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Always Biography Disguise Novel
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Attractive Beem Cloured Even Mother Mouse Percival Very
He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Beast Harmless Horrible Must News Other Possible Reach Soon
Are we savages or what?
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All Savage What
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Book Forget Immediately Know Meant Probably Writer Written Wrote
I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Away Lawful Slip Understable World

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