There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHonestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
More William Golding Quotes
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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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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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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