He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM GOLDINGNothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
More William Golding Quotes
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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People don’t help much.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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