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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.

William Golding

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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
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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Come Gradually Intelligent March May One Problem Solution View
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
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
The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Brightness Celebrity Dress Further Hair People Person Rose Water
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Baby Cry Right Save Something Useless
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
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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
I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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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
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
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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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
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Come Country Generation Holder Like One People Still
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
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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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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