This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHonestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
More William Golding Quotes
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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People don’t help much.
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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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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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