How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
WILLIAM GOLDINGOnly one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
More William Golding Quotes
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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