How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
More William Golding Quotes
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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