And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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