One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
WILLIAM GOLDINGRalph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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