And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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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.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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People don’t help much.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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