But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAnd I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
More William Golding Quotes
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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 conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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.
WILLIAM GOLDING