How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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