the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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