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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.

William Golding

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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
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
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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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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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Before Even Fact Got Paper Still Story Teller Would
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up

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