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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGOne tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
More William Golding Quotes
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from 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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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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