Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of st…

William Golding
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders. ✨ William Golding's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1983.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders. ✨ William Golding's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1983.

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