How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI hope my books make statements about our general condition.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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People don’t help much.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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