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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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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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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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