I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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He 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.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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