A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
More William Golding Quotes
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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