Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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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 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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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