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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhich is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
More William Golding Quotes
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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His 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.
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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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