William Golding Quotes - Page 3

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• I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

  William Golding

  Particular

  William Golding (2013). “The Spire: With an introduction by John Mullan”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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• He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

  William Golding

  Patience, Sea, Sailing

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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

  William Golding

  Believe, Men, Damnation

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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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• The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

  William Golding

  World, Slipping, Lord

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.105, Al Manhal

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• Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

  William Golding

  Thinking, Fancy Things, Reason Why

  Lord of the Flies ch. 8 (1954).

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• They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

  William Golding

  Two, Feelings, Communicate

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.65, Al Manhal

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• We're not savages. We're English.

  William Golding

  Savages

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

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• Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

  William Golding

  Language, Fit, Jackets

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• Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

  William Golding

  Laughter, Language

  William Golding (2013). “An Egyptian Journal”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

  William Golding

  Book, Writing, Forget

  "Novelists in Interview". Book by John Haffenden, 1985.

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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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  Learning, Science, Discovery

  William Golding (2013). “To the Ends of the Earth”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

  William Golding

  Children, Clever, Curiosity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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.

  William Golding

  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  William Golding (2012). “Lord of the Flies”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Are we savages or what?

  William Golding

  Savages

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.241, Penguin

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• I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

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  Mean, People, No Fear

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.84, Penguin

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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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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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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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  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  1956 Pincher Martin, ch.6.

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• I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.

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  Book, Writing, Two

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

  William Golding

  Fool

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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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.

  William Golding

  Trying, Application

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

  William Golding

  Different, Faces, Lit

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

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  Majesty, Redemption, Vastness

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• What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

  William Golding

  Kind, Humans, Persons

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• I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.

  William Golding

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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