You’ll get back to where you came from.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHowever you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
More William Golding Quotes
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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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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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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