Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAnd I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
More William Golding Quotes
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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