There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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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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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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People don’t help much.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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