Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
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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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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People don’t help much.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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