We’re not savages. We’re English.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhich is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
More William Golding Quotes
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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 world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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