The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
WILLIAM GOLDING
If 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 world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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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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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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.
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