The greatest ideas are the simplest.
WILLIAM GOLDINGLanguage fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
More William Golding Quotes
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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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 hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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