Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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 play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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