I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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Are we savages or what?
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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