How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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 beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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