He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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People don’t help much.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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