A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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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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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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