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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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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Book Else Everything Follow Grasp Great Nobody Own Seven Thirty Truth Until
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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Awful Contemporary Honestly Main Raed Time True Write
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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
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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Almost Certain Convenience Could Feel Fundamental Long Novel Really Say Something
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Disharmony Each Injury Nature Other Together
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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