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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William Golding

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Close Come Crowd Knowledge Memories Min Pig Struggling Them
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Geometry Get Greatest Humanity Own People Pleasure Say Sex Understanding
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
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
I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Call Come Cross Dimkard Kind Novel Palm Person Really Remarkable Wine Writer
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Claw Movement No Teeth Tera Word
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
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Come Country Generation Holder Like One People Still
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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Awful Contemporary Honestly Main Raed Time True Write
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
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
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Get Lump Now Philosophy Religion Water Wind
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Come Dustbin Fly High Sleep Stuff Unsort Upet Wind

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