I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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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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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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