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.
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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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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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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Are we savages or what?
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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