As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHis 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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