Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhat kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
More William Golding Quotes
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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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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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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