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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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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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