Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
WILLIAM GOLDINGNo human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
More William Golding Quotes
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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