Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDINGI do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
More William Golding Quotes
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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Are we savages or what?
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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