What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTogether, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
More William Golding Quotes
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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People don’t help much.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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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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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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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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