If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGTowards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
More William Golding Quotes
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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 hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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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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