Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
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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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The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.
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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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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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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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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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