Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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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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Are we savages or what?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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 world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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