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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.

William Golding

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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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.
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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.
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Crow Grade Hand Prejudice Same Shout Thing Thinker Warning
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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
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
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
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
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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Appear Biography Emn Every Novel Pretend Well
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive

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