The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
WILLIAM GOLDINGthe conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
More William Golding Quotes
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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