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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.

William Golding

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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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Chief Think Trouble Wise
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
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
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
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Fetch Fun Good Grownup Island Until
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
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Imperitable Language Laughter Nothing Understand
And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Been Since Specs Three Wear
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Book Forget Immediately Know Meant Probably Writer Written Wrote
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
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Animal Human Savage

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