There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
More William Golding Quotes
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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