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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTowards 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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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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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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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