An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
More William Golding Quotes
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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