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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

William Golding

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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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