We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do. William Golding More Quotes by William Golding More Quotes From William Golding But forgiveness must not only be given but received also. William Golding forgivenessgiven 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 techniqueattentiontwo What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others. William Golding responsibilitydoemen The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding simplicityinsightideas Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us. William Golding beastlord 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 huntinglike-youlaw Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave. William Golding differencesrolesexample 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 religiouslawbelieve Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. William Golding inspirationallifeart We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? William Golding adults He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. William Golding sailingseapatience Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. William Golding strongchildrenschool 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 savagespridelord The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. William Golding maskshameself I hope my books make statements about our general condition. William Golding statementsconditionsbook 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-worldthreeideas 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 paperstoriesfacts 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 damnationmenbelieve 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 starsrainclouds Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding sicknesschildhooddisease
