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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

William Golding

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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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