And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
More William Golding Quotes
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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