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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

William Golding

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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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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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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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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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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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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
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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Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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