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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Are we savages or what?
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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