If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGAre we savages or what?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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