While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
WILLIAM GOLDINGOf the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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 should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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