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When you take a child who's h...

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 119 quotes

Even if you got rid of paper,...

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 119 quotes

I know there isn't no beast—n...

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.

William Golding 119 quotes

This is our island. It's a go...

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

William Golding 119 quotes

Life should serve up its feas...

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

William Golding 119 quotes

The mask was a thing on it's ...

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

William Golding 119 quotes

Fancy thinking the Beast was ...

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 119 quotes

Worse than madness. Sanity. ...

Worse than madness. Sanity.

William Golding 119 quotes

What are we? Humans? Or anima...

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

William Golding 119 quotes

I am not a theologian or a ph...

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

William Golding 119 quotes

It is at least scientifically...

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 119 quotes

We're not savages. We're Engl...

We're not savages. We're English.

William Golding 119 quotes

Towards midnight the rain cea...

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 119 quotes

I do think that art that does...

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

William Golding 119 quotes

One tries to tell a truth, an...

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

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

Maybe half a dozen think they...

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

William Golding 119 quotes

I began to write when I was s...

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.

William Golding 119 quotes

Philosophy and Religion-what ...

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

William Golding 119 quotes

Malcolm Bradbury made the poi...

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

William Golding 119 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....