Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’re not savages. We’re English.
More William Golding Quotes
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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