The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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