Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
More William Golding Quotes
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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Are we savages or what?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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