At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
WILLIAM GOLDINGArt is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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Ralph… 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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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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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