The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
More William Golding Quotes
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Are we savages or what?
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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