I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
WILLIAM GOLDINGSimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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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 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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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