If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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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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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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