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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

William Golding

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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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