People don’t help much.
WILLIAM GOLDINGSimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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