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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.

William Golding

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Baby Cry Right Save Something Useless
This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Fetch Fun Good Grownup Island Until
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
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
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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Hate Known Piggy Scare Someone Think
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
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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Before Even Fact Got Paper Still Story Teller Would
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
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Call Come Cross Dimkard Kind Novel Palm Person Really Remarkable Wine Writer
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Coat Endeavour God Human Must Wholly
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Close Come Crowd Knowledge Memories Min Pig Struggling Them
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

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