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 GOLDINGWhat a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
More William Golding Quotes
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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.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Are we savages or what?
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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.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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?
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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