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This quote is from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Coleridge.
I think it's from the song by Ray Stevens "Santa Claus is Watching You". When I use the expression "They're everywhere, they're everywhere" it sounds just like the lyric "he's everywhere, he's everywhere" in his song.
"Music soothes the savage beast and bends a knotted oak" (Congrave)
This quote can be found on page 152.
That quote comes from the internalised conversation that Simon has with the beast within himself, during an epileptic fit. It is from chapter 8: Gift For The Darkness, a couple of paragraphs from the end, on page 158 in my edition of the book.
Albert Einstein is often credited with saying "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." This quote emphasizes the importance of creativity and thinking beyond what is known in order to achieve great things.
Probably the quote which captures Jack's feelings and motivations the best is... "Bollocks to the rules! We're strong -- we hunt!" -p 82 Beast from Water
Simon told the other boys at a meeting that perhaps there was a beast and that the beast was just themselves. This indicates that Simon does not believe that the beast is a creature with wings, claws and teeth but that it is simply the boys themselves. The beast is just the desire and capacity to do evil which is within us all. Later in the book, after Samneric report actually seeing the beast, I quote... "However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick."
"Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters"
The quote "I don't believe in the beast, I just don't" is spoken by Simon in William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies." Simon is a character who perceives the true nature of the "beast" on the island as a representation of the inherent evil within mankind.
To quote directly from the book... "However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick."
It certainly isn't from Lord of the Flies.