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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.

William Golding

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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Attractive Beem Cloured Even Mother Mouse Percival Very
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
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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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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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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Beast Claw Fear Know Mean No Pause Piggy
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement

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