Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHeaven lies around us in our infancy.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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He 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.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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