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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

William Golding

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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Almost Artificial Country English Fifty Float Language Odd Other Place Surface Thing
While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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Come Country Generation Holder Like One People Still
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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