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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGPercival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
More William Golding Quotes
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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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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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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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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