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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

William Golding

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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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Chief Think Trouble Wise
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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English Language Savage
I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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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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Almost Artificial Country English Fifty Float Language Odd Other Place Surface Thing
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
WILLIAM GOLDING

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Are we savages or what?
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All Savage What
The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Break Care Country People Person Rule Shout
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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
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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Book Forget Immediately Know Meant Probably Writer Written Wrote

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