Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
More William Golding Quotes
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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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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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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