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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?

William Golding

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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Conscious Define Less More Nobelities One Orotundity Proposity Representative Someone Treat
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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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