The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
More William Golding Quotes
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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People don’t help much.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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