Worse than madness. Sanity.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhat a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
More William Golding Quotes
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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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.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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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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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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