Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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People don’t help much.
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