Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
More William Golding Quotes
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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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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