To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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