We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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People don’t help much.
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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?
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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