Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGMaybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
More William Golding Quotes
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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People don’t help much.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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