They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
More William Golding Quotes
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Are we savages or what?
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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 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’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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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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