This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
WILLIAM GOLDINGKill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
More William Golding Quotes
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Are we savages or what?
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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People don’t help much.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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