The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
More William Golding Quotes
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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 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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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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