But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTogether, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
More William Golding Quotes
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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People don’t help much.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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