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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGThe beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
More William Golding Quotes
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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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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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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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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