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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGNothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
More William Golding Quotes
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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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 lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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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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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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