The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
WILLIAM GOLDINGNo human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
More William Golding Quotes
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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