The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
More William Golding Quotes
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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’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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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Are we savages or what?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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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 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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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