The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
More William Golding Quotes
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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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.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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