Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGA star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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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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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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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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