We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
WILLIAM GOLDINGNothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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People don’t help much.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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