The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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 do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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