Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAt the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Ralph 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.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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People don’t help much.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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 am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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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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