How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
WILLIAM GOLDINGGraham 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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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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