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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

William Golding

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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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
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.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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People don’t help much.
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Help Much People

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