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.
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 s… - William Golding
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 s…
- William Golding
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 Golding
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies. - William Golding
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? - William Golding
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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… - William Golding
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…
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. - William Golding
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. - William Golding
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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. - William Golding
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.
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us. - William Golding
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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