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Up Quotes by William Golding
- Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
- Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
- 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…
- Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in…
- The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted…
- 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…
- Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better --…
- Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For…
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