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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

William Golding

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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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 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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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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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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People don’t help much.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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