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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHe lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
More William Golding Quotes
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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.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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