The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
More William Golding Quotes
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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