The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
More William Golding Quotes
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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