I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
WILLIAM GOLDINGOnly one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
More William Golding Quotes
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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People don’t help much.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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