People don’t help much.
WILLIAM GOLDINGOf the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Are we savages or what?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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