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 GOLDINGWhich is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
More William Golding Quotes
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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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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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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