However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
WILLIAM GOLDINGFancy 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?
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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Are we savages or what?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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