The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’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.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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 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.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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