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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.

William Golding

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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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Day Five Inaccurately Indeed Other Passionate Piano Play Seventy Work Year
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Act Expect First Proper Rescue Thing
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
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Applying Believe Ignorance Man Nature Own Suffer
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
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Again Express Follow Himself Lack Lost Maze Render Thought Vague Word
This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Fetch Fun Good Grownup Island Until
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
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
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
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
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
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.
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Almost Artificial Country English Fifty Float Language Odd Other Place Surface Thing
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Along Communicate Continent Experience Feel Unable Walk
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Face Gray Keep Over Peer Shoulder Step Walk Yesterday
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Before Long Mad Myself Proposed Society Stark Start
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Imperitable Language Laughter Nothing Understand
The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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Beethoven Country Listen People Person Play Well
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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Concern Contemporary Either Genuinely Mean Read Think Write
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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Beauty Guess Hell Hope Majesty May Perhaps Redemption See Universe Vastness
While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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All Discipline Extent Myself Off While
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Crow Grade Hand Prejudice Same Shout Thing Thinker Warning
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us

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