Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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