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We're all mad, the whole damn...

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

William Golding 119 quotes

It may be -- I hope it is -- ...

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.

William Golding 119 quotes

Ralph... would treat the day'...

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 119 quotes

To be in a world which is a h...

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 119 quotes

Which is better -- to be a pa...

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 119 quotes

I'm scared of him," said Pigg...

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 119 quotes

Experimental novels are somet...

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 119 quotes

I wouldn't have thought that ...

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 119 quotes

Novelists do not write as bir...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

William Golding 119 quotes

My yesterdays walk with me. T...

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

William Golding 119 quotes

I must have been an unsatisfa...

I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.

William Golding 119 quotes

While I was still a boy, I ca...

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all.

William Golding 119 quotes

When I wrote 'Lord of the Fli...

When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.

William Golding 119 quotes

The writer probably knows wha...

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 119 quotes

What a man does defiles him, ...

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

William Golding 119 quotes

He who rides the sea of the N...

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

William Golding 119 quotes

Boys do not evaluate a book. ...

Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.

William Golding 119 quotes

Marx, Darwin and Freud are th...

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 119 quotes

A novel ensures that we can l...

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.

William Golding 119 quotes

I think women are foolish to ...

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

William Golding 119 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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