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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIt may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
More William Golding Quotes
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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 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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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