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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.

William Golding

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Again Express Follow Himself Lack Lost Maze Render Thought Vague Word
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Here Nowhere Particular
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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Beast Close Fancy Kill Knew Part Something Think
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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All Do Go Grown Up Just On
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Before Long Mad Myself Proposed Society Stark Start
Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Country Like Pach Paint People Sensible
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Along Communicate Continent Experience Feel Unable Walk
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.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Author Country English Face Hat High Make Mention Pe People Person Sound Terrible Very Write
It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Beauty Guess Hell Hope Majesty May Perhaps Redemption See Universe Vastness
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Been Began Ever Off Say Seven Since Still When Write You
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
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
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Believe Define Done Man Other
We’re not savages. We’re English.
WILLIAM GOLDING

English Language Savage

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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