Worse than madness. Sanity.
WILLIAM GOLDINGLife’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
More William Golding Quotes
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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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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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 trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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