The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
WILLIAM GOLDINGLanguage fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
More William Golding Quotes
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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