the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
More William Golding Quotes
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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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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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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