The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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People don’t help much.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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