The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
WILLIAM GOLDINGOf 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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Are we savages or what?
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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