I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
WILLIAM GOLDINGAnd I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
More William Golding Quotes
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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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.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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