There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
WILLIAM GOLDINGA crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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