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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
More William Golding Quotes
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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