The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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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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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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