Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGGraham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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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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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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