Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
More William Golding Quotes
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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