If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
More William Golding Quotes
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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People don’t help much.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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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’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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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