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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 Golding

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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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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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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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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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 really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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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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