At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
WILLIAM GOLDINGServe you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Of 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.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Are we savages or what?
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