How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
More William Golding Quotes
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Are we savages or what?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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