It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
WILLIAM GOLDINGFancy 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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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