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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.

William Golding

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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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Awful Contemporary Honestly Main Raed Time True Write
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
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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Business Fire Frightfully Gentleently Horizon Navy People Say Pull Ship Very Water
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Attractive Beem Cloured Even Mother Mouse Percival Very
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Experience Fit Kjacket Language Like Over Straight
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Adult Everything Went Wrong
People don’t help much.
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Help Much People
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
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Beast Claw Fear Know Mean No Pause Piggy
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Animal Human Savage
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
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
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Believe Define Done Man Other

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