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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.

William Golding

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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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Die Fall Fear Indeed Long Mind Price Sleep Welcome
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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Bore Country Crash Most People Person Western World
Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Agree Better Hunt Kill
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Beast Maybe Only Us
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Here Nowhere Particular
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Book Condition General Hope Make Statement
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Novel One Only Successful
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Ait Bud Candle Flower Island Open Possession Scent Spilled Wide
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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Box Country Dream never People Person Raed Seen Serialized Soon
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Eyes Moment Nothing See Vision
The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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Geometry Get Greatest Humanity Own People Pleasure Say Sex Understanding
Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Madness Sanity Worse
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
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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Absorb Become Beyond Control Describe Excercise Felt Happiness Himself Living Thing
I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Art Communicate Think Useless

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