I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
WILLIAM GOLDINGLife should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
More William Golding Quotes
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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