Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
More William Golding Quotes
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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