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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
More William Golding Quotes
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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People don’t help much.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Are we savages or what?
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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 candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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