We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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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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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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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We’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.
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