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 GOLDINGKill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
More William Golding Quotes
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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People don’t help much.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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