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 GOLDINGSimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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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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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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People don’t help much.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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