Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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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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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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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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People don’t help much.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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