The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
More William Golding Quotes
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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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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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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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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