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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

William Golding

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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Away Lawful Slip Understable World
Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Concern Contemporary Either Genuinely Mean Read Think Write
The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Geometry Get Greatest Humanity Own People Pleasure Say Sex Understanding
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Become Effort Essential Express Illness Inarticulate Mankind People
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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Considerate Every Found Himself Improvioson Life One Part Walk Wearisomeness
Are we savages or what?
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All Savage What
There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Among Dry Kinship Life Measure Men Sat Worth
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
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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Burden Chant Effort Join Last Mountain Sleep Staggered Together Two
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Coat Endeavour God Human Must Wholly
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 began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Anyone Began Ca[Able Do Evil Man Move People Produce Understanding Without

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