If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhich is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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Are we savages or what?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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