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From Quotes by William Golding
- Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
- 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…
- If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
- Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in…
- You'll get back to where you came from.
- The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
- It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then…
- 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…
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