I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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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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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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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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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 world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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People don’t help much.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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