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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.

William Golding

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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.
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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
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Air Call Darkness End Fall Friend Innocence People Through True Went Wise
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Come Gradually Intelligent March May One Problem Solution View
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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Concern Contemporary Either Genuinely Mean Read Think Write
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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Blow Come Back Conch
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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