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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

William Golding

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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 thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
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
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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Beethoven Country Listen People Person Play Well
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
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
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
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
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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Awful Contemporary Honestly Main Raed Time True Write
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Coat Endeavour God Human Must Wholly

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