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.
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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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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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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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Are we savages or what?
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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