Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe greatest ideas are the simplest.
More William Golding Quotes
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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