You’ll get back to where you came from.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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