One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
More William Golding Quotes
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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People don’t help much.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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