Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
WILLIAM GOLDINGPeople don’t help much.
More William Golding Quotes
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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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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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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