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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

William Golding

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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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