If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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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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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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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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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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