The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’re not savages. We’re English.
More William Golding Quotes
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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 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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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