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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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