How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
WILLIAM GOLDINGChildhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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