No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
WILLIAM GOLDING
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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