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William Golding Inspirational Quotes (134)

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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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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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People don't help much.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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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 some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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