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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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I spit upon your God!
— William Golding
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
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The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.
— William Golding
Worse than madness. Sanity.
— William Golding
Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.
— William Golding
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!""Who cares? — William Golding
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
— William Golding
The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.
— William Golding
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers ... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Sucks to your ass-mar!
— William Golding
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
— William Golding
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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With an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.
— William Golding
Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?
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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.
— William Golding
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
— William Golding
A battle cheapens life and I find life cheap enough already
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I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
— William Golding
The thing isfear can't hold you any more than a dream ... — William Golding
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
— William Golding
There was no light left save that of the stars.
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They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.
— William Golding
Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us. — William Golding
I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.
— William Golding
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
— William Golding
The best novels, the writer's imagination becomes the reader's reality.
— William Golding
But for all the feet that had trodden it, it remained ordinary dust, which seemed to make everything much sadder.
— William Golding
an incantation of hatred.
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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
— William Golding
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
— William Golding
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
— William Golding
We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?
— William Golding
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
— William Golding
Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it!
— William Golding
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
— William Golding
People don't help much.
— William Golding
Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.
— William Golding
As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.
— William Golding
If faces were different when lit from above or below what was a face? What was anything? — William Golding
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Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.
— William Golding
I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.
— William Golding
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
— William Golding
It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.
— William Golding
They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
— William Golding
If you were a chief, you had to grab at a decision.
— William Golding
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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.
— William Golding
I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.
— William Golding
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
— William Golding
Life itself is a rickety building
— William Golding
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
— William Golding
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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A star appeared ... and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.
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His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
— William Golding
I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.
— William Golding
The crying went on, breath after breath, and seemed to sustain him upright as if he were nailed to it.
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I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.
— William Golding
If only one had time to think!
— William Golding
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Piggy once more was the centre of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.
— William Golding
This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
— William Golding
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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If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.
— William Golding
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
— William Golding
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
— William Golding
Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [ ... ] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.
— William Golding
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.
— William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?
— William Golding
Which is betterto have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? — William Golding
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.
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I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding
— William Golding
Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
— William Golding
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
— William Golding