What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
More William Golding Quotes
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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.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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