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Are we savages or what?

William Golding

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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.
WILLIAM GOLDING

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
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
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Eraser Favorite Human Kind Person
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Air Call Darkness End Fall Friend Innocence People Through True Went Wise
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 do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Book Concern Deeply Idea Important Like Novel People Raed Therefore Think Twice
This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Fetch Fun Good Grownup Island Until
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Day Five Inaccurately Indeed Other Passionate Piano Play Seventy Work Year
And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Been Since Specs Three Wear
Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Chess Country Decision People Play Through
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Fool Like Old Say
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Animal Human Savage
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Imperitable Language Laughter Nothing Understand
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
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Always Been Foolish Pretend Superior Think
The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Break Care Country People Person Rule Shout
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
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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Bore Country Crash Most People Person Western World
The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Behind Consciousness Country Liberated Mask Own People Person Self Shame Think

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