Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
WILLIAM GOLDINGSleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
More William Golding Quotes
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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I 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.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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People don’t help much.
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