Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
More William Golding Quotes
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Ralph 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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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People don’t help much.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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