# Quote — William Golding, Pincher Martin

> 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...

- Author: [William Golding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-golding.md)
- Book: [Pincher Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-golding/pincher-martin.md)
- Page: 190
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Golding#Pincher_Martin_(1956)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-golding/pincher-martin/i-will-tell

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> Sleep is when all unsorted stuff comes as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

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