And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHow can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
More William Golding Quotes
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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People don’t help much.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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