The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGPhilosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
More William Golding Quotes
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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