I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
WILLIAM GOLDINGBeethoven 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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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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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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People don’t help much.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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