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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.

William Golding

I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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Hate Known Piggy Scare Someone Think
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Get Lump Now Philosophy Religion Water Wind
People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
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
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Baby Cry Right Save Something Useless
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Claw Movement No Teeth Tera Word
There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Among Dry Kinship Life Measure Men Sat Worth
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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English Language Savage
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Anyone Country Deny Eighty Force People Think Two Write Year
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
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
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

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