Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
WILLIAM GOLDINGHonestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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We’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.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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