Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
WILLIAM GOLDINGRalph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
More William Golding Quotes
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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People don’t help much.
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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