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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.

William Golding

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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Along Communicate Continent Experience Feel Unable Walk
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Confusion Delusion Illusion Mad Partition Peenetrablity Race Whole Dammed Wrap
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Bore Country Crash Most People Person Western World
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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Always Been Foolish Pretend Superior Think
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
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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