Are we savages or what?
WILLIAM GOLDINGFancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
More William Golding Quotes
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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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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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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