Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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