One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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