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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

William Golding

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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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Beast Close Fancy Kill Knew Part Something Think
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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Before Even Fact Got Paper Still Story Teller Would
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
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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Bore Country Crash Most People Person Western World
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Condition Intelectual Nature Optimist Pessimist
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
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Beast Harmless Horrible Must News Other Possible Reach Soon
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Attractive Beem Cloured Even Mother Mouse Percival Very
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Always Biography Disguise Novel

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