At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
More William Golding Quotes
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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