I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
WILLIAM GOLDINGKill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
More William Golding Quotes
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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