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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGEven if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
More William Golding Quotes
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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 mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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