A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhat a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
More William Golding Quotes
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Are we savages or what?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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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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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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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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