A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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 am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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 who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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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 doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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