The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
WILLIAM GOLDING
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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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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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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