But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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