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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGMarx, 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Are we savages or what?
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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