No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
WILLIAM GOLDINGMaybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
More William Golding Quotes
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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