The greatest ideas are the simplest.
("Lord of the Flies")
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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...William Golding
What did it mean? A stick sharpened at both ends. What was there in that?
William Golding
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 to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if, at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle, he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
William Golding
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
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