Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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 hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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People don’t help much.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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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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