Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBut forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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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 have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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