What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
WILLIAM GOLDINGMy yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
More William Golding Quotes
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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