How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
WILLIAM GOLDINGHonestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
More William Golding Quotes
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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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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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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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.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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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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Are we savages or what?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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