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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

William Golding

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Burden Chant Effort Join Last Mountain Sleep Staggered Together Two
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Get Lump Now Philosophy Religion Water Wind
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Nile Ride Sall Sea Wovenm Patience
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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Chief Think Trouble Wise
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Bore Country Crash Most People Person Western World
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
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 hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Come Dustbin Fly High Sleep Stuff Unsort Upet Wind
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
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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Brightness Celebrity Dress Further Hair People Person Rose Water
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
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.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Crow Grade Hand Prejudice Same Shout Thing Thinker Warning

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