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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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