The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
More William Golding Quotes
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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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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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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