the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhat are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
More William Golding Quotes
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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 know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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