People don’t help much.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThey walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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