One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThis is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
More William Golding Quotes
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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