I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
WILLIAM GOLDINGMarx, 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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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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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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