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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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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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Blow Come Back Conch
A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon

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