I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
More William Golding Quotes
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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