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“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.”
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
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