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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.

William Golding

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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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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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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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