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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.

William Golding

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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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Chief Think Trouble Wise
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Nile Ride Sall Sea Wovenm Patience
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Along Communicate Continent Experience Feel Unable Walk
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Absorb Become Beyond Control Describe Excercise Felt Happiness Himself Living Thing
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
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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Beast Close Fancy Kill Knew Part Something Think
We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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All Do Go Grown Up Just On
People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
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
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Eraser Favorite Human Kind Person
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Become Effort Essential Express Illness Inarticulate Mankind People
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Before Long Mad Myself Proposed Society Stark Start
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
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.
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Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat
It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Book Else Everything Follow Grasp Great Nobody Own Seven Thirty Truth Until
The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Behind Consciousness Country Liberated Mask Own People Person Self Shame Think
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.
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Chess Country Decision People Play Through
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Awful Contemporary Honestly Main Raed Time True Write

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