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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

William Golding

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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Come Country Generation Holder Like One People Still
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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Beauty Guess Hell Hope Majesty May Perhaps Redemption See Universe Vastness
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Almost Artificial Country English Fifty Float Language Odd Other Place Surface Thing
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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Face Gray Keep Over Peer Shoulder Step Walk Yesterday
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
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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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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