Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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