Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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