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.
WILLIAM GOLDING
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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