“When you done laughing perhaps we can get on with the meeting. And if them littluns climb back on the twister again they'll only fall off in a sec. So they might as well sit on the ground and listen. No. You have doctors for everything, even the inside of your mind. You don't really mean that we got to be frightened all the time of nothing? Life," said Piggy expansively, "is scientific, that's what it is. In a year or two when the war's over they'll be traveling to Mars and back. 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."
William Golding, born on this day in 1911, from Lord of the Flies
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