Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGEven if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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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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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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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