Ralph… 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 GOLDINGHowever you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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