You 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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
More William Golding Quotes
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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