We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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