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 GOLDINGHe found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
More William Golding Quotes
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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Are we savages or what?
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Together, 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.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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