My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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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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