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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.

William Golding

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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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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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Are we savages or what?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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