A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
More William Golding Quotes
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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