Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
More William Golding Quotes
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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