Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Are we savages or what?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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