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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
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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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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

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