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 GOLDINGArt is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
More William Golding Quotes
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Are we savages or what?
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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