If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
More William Golding Quotes
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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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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I 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.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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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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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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