The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHonestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
More William Golding Quotes
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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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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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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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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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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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 think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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