The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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