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William Golding Quote: “Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
William Golding Quote: “The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble...”
William Golding Quote: “The trouble is: Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?” “ ‘Course there aren’t.” “Why not?” “’Cos things wouldn’t make sense. Houses an’ streets, an’ – TV – they wouldn’t work.”
William Golding Quote: “Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure...”
William Golding Quote: “The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.”
William Golding Quote: “Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
William Golding Quote: “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.”
William Golding Quote: “Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination. They were lifted up: were friends.”
William Golding Quote: “Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.”
William Golding Quote: “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 Quote: “The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”
William Golding Quote: “Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.”
William Golding Quote: “The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.”
William Golding Quote: “The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won’t tell.”
William Golding Quote: “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”
William Golding Quote: “They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”
William Golding Quote: “And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, 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.”
William Golding Quote: “The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.”
William Golding Quote: “And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.”
William Golding Quote: “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.”
William Golding Quote: “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
William Golding Quote: “How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?”
William Golding Quote: “We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.”
William Golding Quote: “Somewhere over the darkened curve of the world the sun and moon were pulling; and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned. The great wave of the tide moved further along the island and the water lifted. Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
William Golding Quote: “The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.”
William Golding Quote: “The rules!” shouted Ralph. “You’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?” Ralph summoned his wits. “Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!”
William Golding Quote: “Piggy once more was the centre of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
William Golding Quote: “Grownups know things,” said Piggy. “They ain’t afraid of the dark. They’d meet and have tea and discuss. Then things ’ud be all right –.”
William Golding Quote: “I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.”
William Golding Quote: “The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth.”
William Golding Quote: “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you?′ said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. ‘You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
William Golding Quote: “They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.”
William Golding Quote: “Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”
William Golding Quote: “Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.”
William Golding Quote: “Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”
William Golding Quote: “He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.”
William Golding Quote: “He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence.”
William Golding Quote: “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.”
William Golding Quote: “The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life.”
William Golding Quote: “Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.”
William Golding Quote: “As long as there’s light we’re brave enough.”
William Golding Quote: “Piggy was calling him a kid. Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist’s chair reality.”
William Golding Quote: “We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.”
William Golding Quote: “All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.”
William Golding Quote: “Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.”
William Golding Quote: “What’s in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it’s what the reader get out of it.”
William Golding Quote: “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.”
William Golding Quote: “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 Quote: “What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.”
William Golding Quote: “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry’s right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”
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