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Quotes from A Moving Target — William Golding

1911–1993 England

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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.

A Moving Target (1982)

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.

A Moving Target (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Golding (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.