Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThere’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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