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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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