However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHow can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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