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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

William Golding

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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
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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Been Began Ever Off Say Seven Since Still When Write You
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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Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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Before Even Fact Got Paper Still Story Teller Would
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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Beethoven Country Listen People Person Play Well
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say

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