“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”
Quote by William Golding
Book:Lord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding's classic novel depicts the descent into savagery of a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island, examining the nature of human behavior and the influence of societal structures. more
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