Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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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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