Are we savages or what?
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
More William Golding Quotes
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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