The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhich is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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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Are we savages or what?
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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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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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People don’t help much.
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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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