Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
WILLIAM GOLDINGRalph 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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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