However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
WILLIAM GOLDINGOne tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
More William Golding Quotes
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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