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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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