We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
More William Golding Quotes
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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 by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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People don’t help much.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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