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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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