the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
WILLIAM GOLDINGRalph 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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 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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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