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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGSimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
More William Golding Quotes
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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