I 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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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People don’t help much.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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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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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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