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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
More William Golding Quotes
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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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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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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