William Golding Quotes

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• Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
• Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
• Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started…
• What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of…
• There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
• Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
• How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
• It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most…
• It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all…
• There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
• How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
• Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and…
• The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
• And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
• The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
• There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
• A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
• Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
• Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

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