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 GOLDINGNothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
More William Golding Quotes
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better — to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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