It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
WILLIAM GOLDINGA star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
More William Golding Quotes
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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