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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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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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