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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGServe you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
More William Golding Quotes
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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