The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTowards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
More William Golding Quotes
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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