Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
More William Golding Quotes
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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