Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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