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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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