Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
More William Golding Quotes
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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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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