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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAs soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
More William Golding Quotes
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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