They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
More William Golding Quotes
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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