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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGMarx, 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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 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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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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