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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGPhilosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Are we savages or what?
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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