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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

William Golding

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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Answer Country Know Like People Regard Skull Tell
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
We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Confusion Delusion Illusion Mad Partition Peenetrablity Race Whole Dammed Wrap
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
He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Among Dry Kinship Life Measure Men Sat Worth
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Ait Bud Candle Flower Island Open Possession Scent Spilled Wide
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Again Express Follow Himself Lack Lost Maze Render Thought Vague Word
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Applying Believe Ignorance Man Nature Own Suffer
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Air Call Darkness End Fall Friend Innocence People Through True Went Wise
I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Concern Contemporary Either Genuinely Mean Read Think Write
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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