I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
More William Golding Quotes
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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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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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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