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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
More William Golding Quotes
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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People don’t help much.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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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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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Are we savages or what?
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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 trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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