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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Nile Ride Sall Sea Wovenm Patience
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Come Country Generation Holder Like One People Still
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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Appear Biography Emn Every Novel Pretend Well
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.
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Book Else Everything Follow Grasp Great Nobody Own Seven Thirty Truth Until
Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Country Like Pach Paint People Sensible
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Along Communicate Continent Experience Feel Unable Walk
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Always Been Foolish Pretend Superior Think
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Bore Country Crash Most People Person Western World
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
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
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
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
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Away Lawful Slip Understable World
A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Appear Eclipse Momentarily Movement Some Star
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
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Imperitable Language Laughter Nothing Understand
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get

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