I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe greatest ideas are the simplest.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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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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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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