Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Together, 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.
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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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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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