The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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