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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

William Golding

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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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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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Again Express Follow Himself Lack Lost Maze Render Thought Vague Word
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat

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