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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWhat kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
More William Golding Quotes
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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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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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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’re not savages. We’re English.
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