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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.

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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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