We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
More William Golding Quotes
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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 think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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