We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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