One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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 am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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