I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
WILLIAM GOLDINGthe conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
More William Golding Quotes
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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