The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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 am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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 can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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