Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGOne’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.
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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People don’t help much.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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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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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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