I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
WILLIAM GOLDINGYou 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Are we savages or what?
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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