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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.

William Golding

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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English Language Savage
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
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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Call Come Cross Dimkard Kind Novel Palm Person Really Remarkable Wine Writer
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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People Person Philosopher Storyteller Theologian
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
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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Beast Close Fancy Kill Knew Part Something Think
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Close Come Crowd Knowledge Memories Min Pig Struggling Them
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Beast Harmless Horrible Must News Other Possible Reach Soon
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Anyone Country Deny Eighty Force People Think Two Write Year
This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Fetch Fun Good Grownup Island Until
And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Been Since Specs Three Wear
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Condition Intelectual Nature Optimist Pessimist
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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Cover Development Eject Foetus Freak Made Man Natural Rob Tell Will World
I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Almost Certain Convenience Could Feel Fundamental Long Novel Really Say Something

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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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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