If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGThis is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
More William Golding Quotes
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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 beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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