They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
WILLIAM GOLDINGA star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
More William Golding Quotes
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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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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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.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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