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?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
More William Golding Quotes
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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