I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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He 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.
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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