The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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