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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

William Golding

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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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Geometry Get Greatest Humanity Own People Pleasure Say Sex Understanding
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
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
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Act Expect First Proper Rescue Thing
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Baby Cry Right Save Something Useless
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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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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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.
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