Are we savages or what?
WILLIAM GOLDINGNo human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
More William Golding Quotes
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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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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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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 don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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