Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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 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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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