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?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
More William Golding Quotes
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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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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