There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThey walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
More William Golding Quotes
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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