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 GOLDINGSleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
More William Golding Quotes
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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 did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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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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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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