My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDINGA 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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People don’t help much.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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.
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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