I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
WILLIAM GOLDINGMy yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
More William Golding Quotes
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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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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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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