The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTowards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
More William Golding Quotes
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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 skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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