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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

William Golding

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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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