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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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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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Close Come Crowd Knowledge Memories Min Pig Struggling Them
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Along Communicate Continent Experience Feel Unable Walk
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
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Animal Human Savage
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Disharmony Each Injury Nature Other Together
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Nile Ride Sall Sea Wovenm Patience
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Been Began Ever Off Say Seven Since Still When Write You
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
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
The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Behind Consciousness Country Liberated Mask Own People Person Self Shame Think
We’re not savages. We’re English.
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English Language Savage
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
You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
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
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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Beethoven Country Listen People Person Play Well
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Baby Cry Right Save Something Useless
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
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
We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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All Do Go Grown Up Just On
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
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Country Like Pach Paint People Sensible
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Anyone Country Deny Eighty Force People Think Two Write Year
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Here Nowhere Particular
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

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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