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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

William Golding

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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
He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
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
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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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Book Forget Immediately Know Meant Probably Writer Written Wrote
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
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.
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All Discipline Extent Myself Off While
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
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
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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Confusion Delusion Illusion Mad Partition Peenetrablity Race Whole Dammed Wrap
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Beast Harmless Horrible Must News Other Possible Reach Soon
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Away Lawful Slip Understable World
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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Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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Beethoven Country Listen People Person Play Well

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