Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTogether, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
More William Golding Quotes
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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People don’t help much.
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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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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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