The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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 have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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People don’t help much.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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