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William Golding was an English novelist, best known for his novel 'Lord of the Flies'. His works often explore themes of human nature, morality, and civilization.

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Famous William Golding Quotes

“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.”

Fire Survival Foreshadowing Lord Of The Flies Descriptions Young Boy

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'”

People Water Fire Sorry Ships Horizon Navy Chaps Gentlemanly

Author:William Golding

“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”

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Author:William Golding

“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.”

Ifs Animal Fire Blow

Book:Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.”

Men Fire Dying Sat Contemplation Kinship

Author:William Golding

“Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?”

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Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

About the Author

Born: September 19, 1911
Died: June 19, 1993
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 200

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