They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
More William Golding Quotes
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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 trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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