People don’t help much.
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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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