the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
WILLIAM GOLDINGSimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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People don’t help much.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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