Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
WILLIAM GOLDINGPhilosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
More William Golding Quotes
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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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.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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