You’ll get back to where you came from.
WILLIAM GOLDINGA star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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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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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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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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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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