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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.

William Golding

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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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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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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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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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