QUOTES by William Gerald Golding
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A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star.
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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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And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs?
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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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What did it mean? A stick sharpened at both ends. What was there in that?
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Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.
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I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.
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The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.
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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.
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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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I wish my auntie was here." "I wish my father.. O, what's the use?
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Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person
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I came to see you two-" Words could not express the dull pain of these things.
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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.
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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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The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
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There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.
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But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?
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People don't help much.' He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.
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He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!" said the head.; "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close!
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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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The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him. "--dance?" Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively.
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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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The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.
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