We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe greatest ideas are the simplest.
More William Golding Quotes
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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 believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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