The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
WILLIAM GOLDINGEven if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Are we savages or what?
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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