The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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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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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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