Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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People don’t help much.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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