Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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