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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.

William Golding

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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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Application General Hope One Specific Tell Truth Try
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Baby Cry Right Save Something Useless
The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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