I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
WILLIAM GOLDINGYou’ll get back to where you came from.
More William Golding Quotes
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Are we savages or what?
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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Fancy 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?
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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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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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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