Worse than madness. Sanity.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThey walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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People don’t help much.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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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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