I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI hope my books make statements about our general condition.
More William Golding Quotes
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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