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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAt the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
More William Golding Quotes
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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