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William Golding Quotes

William Golding quotes about experience

English Novelist, Writer September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993

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There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If... William Golding
It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like. William Golding
William Golding quote: "They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling..."
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. William Golding
William Golding quote: "Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. William Golding

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