The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
More William Golding Quotes
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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People don’t help much.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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