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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

William Golding

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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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 thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Come Dustbin Fly High Sleep Stuff Unsort Upet Wind
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.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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