Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThey walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
More William Golding Quotes
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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 began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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