He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhich is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
More William Golding Quotes
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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People don’t help much.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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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 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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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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