While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
More William Golding Quotes
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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It 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 is quite unimaginable.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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I 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 frightened of people.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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