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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
More William Golding Quotes
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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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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People don’t help much.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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