This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
WILLIAM GOLDING
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
More William Golding Quotes
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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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 began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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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 kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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