But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
WILLIAM GOLDINGSimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
More William Golding Quotes
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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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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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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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?
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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 mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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