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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”

“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.”

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.”

“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?”

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

“Sucks to your ass-mar!”

“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”

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gender, equality, men, empowerment, beast, women, hallucination, simon, inspirational, simplicity, superiority

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