He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Are we savages or what?
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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