There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
WILLIAM GOLDINGLife should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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 greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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People don’t help much.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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