Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
WILLIAM GOLDINGOnly one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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People don’t help much.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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