We’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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
More William Golding Quotes
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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People don’t help much.
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I 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.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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