Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
More William Golding Quotes
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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