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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

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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Anyone Began Ca[Able Do Evil Man Move People Produce Understanding Without
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Better Break Hunt Law Rescue Thing Up
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Dream Fear Hurt More Thing
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
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
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Around Heaven Infancy Lie Our
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
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
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
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Again Express Follow Himself Lack Lost Maze Render Thought Vague Word
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Face Gray Keep Over Peer Shoulder Step Walk Yesterday
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Always Biography Disguise Novel

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