However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe greatest ideas are the simplest.
More William Golding Quotes
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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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.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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