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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.

William Golding

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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
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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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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