The greatest ideas are the simplest.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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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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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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