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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

William Golding

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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Back Came From Get
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Condition Intelectual Nature Optimist Pessimist
This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Fetch Fun Good Grownup Island Until
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
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Claw Movement No Teeth Tera Word
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Art Communicate Think Useless
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Come Dustbin Fly High Sleep Stuff Unsort Upet Wind
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Away Lawful Slip Understable World
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
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
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Before Long Mad Myself Proposed Society Stark Start
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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People Person Philosopher Storyteller Theologian
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Cease Conch Exist Exlod Fragment Thousand
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
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
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

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