His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
WILLIAM GOLDINGMaybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
More William Golding Quotes
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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 kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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