Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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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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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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