William Golding Short Quotes

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Childhood is a disease—a sickness that you grow out of.

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Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!

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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

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What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?

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It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.

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Art is partly communication but only partly. The rest is discovery.

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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

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The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.

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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

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How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?

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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?

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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

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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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However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.

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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.

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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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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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