Are we savages or what?
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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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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