William Golding Quotes - Page 2

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• I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

  William Golding

  Stories, Philosopher, Theologian

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• But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

  William Golding

  Forgiveness, Given

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• I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.

  William Golding

  Men, Skulls, World

  "The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction". Book by Gabriel Josipovici, 1971.

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• Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

  William Golding

  Lying, Heaven, Infancy

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• Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

  William Golding

  Law, Lord, Piggy

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• Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

  William Golding

  Experience, Should, Courses

  1987 Close Quarters.

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• I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

  William Golding

  Book, Conditions, Statements

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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.

  William Golding

  Stories, Paper, Facts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

  William Golding

  Book, Writing, Write Your Own

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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.

  William Golding

  Mazes, Frowning, Lost

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

  William Golding

  Fun, Islands, Fetch

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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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.

  William Golding

  Pride, Savages, Lord

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Like You

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

  William Golding

  Art, Thinking, Useless

  Jack I. Biles, William Golding (1970). “Talk: conversations with William Golding”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.

  William Golding

  Two, Technique, Attention

  "William Golding: Universal Pessimist, Cosmic Optimist". Interview with MaryLynn Scott, aurora.icaap.org. 1990.

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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.

  William Golding

  Our World, Ideas, Three

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• The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

  William Golding

  Self, Shame, Mask

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.83, Penguin

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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.

  William Golding

  Men, Fire, Dying

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• When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.

  William Golding

  Children, Long, Once Upon A Time

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

  William Golding

  Goes On, Grownups

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Hamilton Books

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• It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

  William Golding

  Religious, Believe, Law

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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.

  William Golding

  Player, Decision, Playing Chess

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.89, Penguin

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• Worse than madness. Sanity.

  William Golding

  Madness, Sanity

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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.

  William Golding

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

  William Golding

  Wise, Fall, Heart

  Lord of the Flies ch. 12 (1954)

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