We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
("Lord of the Flies")
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Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if, at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle, he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.William Golding
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
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.
William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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
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