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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

William Golding

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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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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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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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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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