“He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.”
Other William Golding Quotes
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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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