The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
WILLIAM GOLDINGPercival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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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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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.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Are we savages or what?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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