It 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.
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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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