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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
More William Golding Quotes
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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