Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHis 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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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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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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