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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
More William Golding Quotes
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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