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 GOLDINGWhich is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
More William Golding Quotes
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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