I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
More William Golding Quotes
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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 skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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