A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThey walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
More William Golding Quotes
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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People don’t help much.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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