My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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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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People don’t help much.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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