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?
WILLIAM GOLDINGKill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
More William Golding Quotes
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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People don’t help much.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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