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 GOLDINGGraham 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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 do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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.
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