Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
More William Golding Quotes
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Are we savages or what?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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