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#1

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#2

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

2766 likes

#3

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1300 likes

#4

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

8359 likes

#5

“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#6

“People don't help much.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: piggy, ralph

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#7

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17552 likes

#8

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

9499 likes

#9

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

6985 likes

#10

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5739 likes

#11

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5131 likes

#12

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#13

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

2777 likes

#14

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

tags: reading, writing

2531 likes

#15

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower

2429 likes

#16

“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, Lord of the Flies

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#17

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: empowerment, equality, gender, men, superiority, women

759 likes

#18

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: inspirational, simplicity

738 likes

#19

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! 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, Lord of the Flies

tags: beast, hallucination, simon

483 likes

#20

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#21

“Sucks to your ass-mar!”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#22

“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”
― William Golding

tags: nature, optimist, pessimist

118 likes

#23

“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#24

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
― William Golding

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#25

“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: lord-of-the-flies

48 likes

#26

“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.”
― William Golding

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#27

“We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible

tags: confusion, delusions, humanity, illusions, madness, solitude

44 likes

#28

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: people

44 likes

#29

“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”
― William Golding, The Spire

tags: sight, vision

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#30

“Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.”
― William Golding

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