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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Book Forget Immediately Know Meant Probably Writer Written Wrote
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Art Communication Discover Partly Rest
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Act Expect First Proper Rescue Thing
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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Anything Believe Guess Hell Merely Neither Only World
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Nile Ride Sall Sea Wovenm Patience
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
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Claw Movement No Teeth Tera Word
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Almost Certain Convenience Could Feel Fundamental Long Novel Really Say Something
He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Coat Endeavour God Human Must Wholly
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
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
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 am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Get Lump Now Philosophy Religion Water Wind
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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Beast Close Fancy Kill Knew Part Something Think
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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English Language Savage
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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Hate Known Piggy Scare Someone Think
I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Call Come Cross Dimkard Kind Novel Palm Person Really Remarkable Wine Writer

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