William GoldingConsider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and g… ▶351HumanityLifeReflection
William GoldingWhat a man does defiles him, not what is done by others. ✨ William Golding (2013). Rites of Passage: With an introduction by Robert McCrum, p.156, Faber & Faber374Life
William GoldingThere is, they say, no fool like an old fool. ✨ William Golding (2013). Moving Target, p.225, Faber & Faber352Life
William GoldingWe did everything adults would do. What went wrong?352Politics
William GoldingKill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in! ✨ William Golding (2016). Lord of the Flies, p.82, Hamilton Books374Reading
William GoldingRalph... 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. ✨ William Golding (2016). Lor… ▶352Truth
William GoldingThey walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. ✨ William Golding (2013). Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes, p.65,… ▶353Life
William GoldingWe'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. ✨ W… ▶364Life
William GoldingCouldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse? ✨ William Golding (2016). Lord of the Flies, p.144, Hamilton Books333Reading
William GoldingWe've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. ✨ William Golding (2016). Lord of the Flies, p.28… ▶334Reading
William GoldingTowards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. ✨ William Golding (2012). Lord of t… ▶323Thought
William GoldingNovelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ✨ Willia… ▶312Reading
William GoldingIt is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and mo… ▶323HumanityPolitics
William GoldingWe have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.313Life
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 … ▶368Thought
William GoldingIt may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which… ▶335Hope
William GoldingWhich is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?346Politics
William GoldingThey looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. ✨ William Golding (1954). Lord of the Flies, p.71, Penguin302Love
William GoldingPut simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. … ▶379Reading
William GoldingWe're not savages. We're English. ✨ William Golding (2016). Lord of the Flies, p.28, Hamilton Books314Reading
William GoldingArt is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. ✨ Jack I. Biles, William Golding (1970). Talk: conversations with William Golding, Houghton Mifflin Harc… ▶314Reflection
William GoldingLife should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses. ✨ 1987 Close Quarters.292Life
William GoldingWhich is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better,… ▶325PoliticsReadingSadness
William GoldingThe 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.271Humanity
William GoldingThe world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. ✨ William Golding (2013). Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes, p.105, Al Manhal282Politics
William GoldingChildhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.3610Sadness
William GoldingMy yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.326Sadness
William GoldingI do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless. ✨ Jack I. Biles, William Golding (1970). Talk: conversations with William Golding, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P282Thought
William GoldingI 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 fr… ▶282HumanityPolitics
William GoldingI 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 (2013). To the En… ▶348Love
