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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.

William Golding

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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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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 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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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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