There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDINGYou’ll get back to where you came from.
More William Golding Quotes
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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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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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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