People don’t help much.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIt 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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