No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
WILLIAM GOLDINGRalph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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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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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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