He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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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 am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Are we savages or what?
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People don’t help much.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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