Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
More William Golding Quotes
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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People don’t help much.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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