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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGWe just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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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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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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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Are we savages or what?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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