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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.

William Golding

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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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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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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