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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

William Golding

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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Away Lawful Slip Understable World
People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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All Do Go Grown Up Just On
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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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