And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Are we savages or what?
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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