Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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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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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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People don’t help much.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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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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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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