The greatest ideas are the simplest.
WILLIAM GOLDING
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.
More William Golding Quotes
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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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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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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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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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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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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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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