He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Are we savages or what?
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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 not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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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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