Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhile 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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