If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Are we savages or what?
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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 rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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