People don’t help much.
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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Are we savages or what?
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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