The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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