The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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