I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
More William Golding Quotes
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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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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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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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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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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