Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
More William Golding Quotes
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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