Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
More William Golding Quotes
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Are we savages or what?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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