Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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