We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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People don’t help much.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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