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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.

William Golding

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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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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.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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