Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
WILLIAM GOLDINGAnd I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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