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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.

William Golding

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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
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 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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Application General Hope One Specific Tell Truth Try
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Eraser Favorite Human Kind Person
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Bash Cut Him Kill Pig Throat
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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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
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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All Discipline Extent Myself Off While
And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Been Since Specs Three Wear
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Book Forget Immediately Know Meant Probably Writer Written Wrote

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