I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
WILLIAM GOLDINGLife should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
More William Golding Quotes
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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