There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAs 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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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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 rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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