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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

William Golding

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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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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The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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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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Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Chess Country Decision People Play Through
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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