They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThis is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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People don’t help much.
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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