I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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 do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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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.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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People don’t help much.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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 am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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 trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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