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

William Golding

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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
People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Been Began Ever Off Say Seven Since Still When Write You
The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Brightness Celebrity Dress Further Hair People Person Rose Water
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
The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Break Care Country People Person Rule Shout
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Crow Grade Hand Prejudice Same Shout Thing Thinker Warning
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Almost Artificial Country English Fifty Float Language Odd Other Place Surface Thing
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Before Long Mad Myself Proposed Society Stark Start
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
A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Appear Eclipse Momentarily Movement Some Star
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Bash Cut Him Kill Pig Throat
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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Away Cease Cloud Drift Incredible Lamp Mighnight More Once Scatter Sky Star Towards
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Face Gray Keep Over Peer Shoulder Step Walk Yesterday
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Astonish Ease Prison Settle Uniform
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
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.
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Anyone Country Deny Eighty Force People Think Two Write Year
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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Before Even Fact Got Paper Still Story Teller Would
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Become Effort Essential Express Illness Inarticulate Mankind People

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