We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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 am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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