Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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