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.
WILLIAM GOLDINGHow would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
More William Golding Quotes
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Are we savages or what?
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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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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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People don’t help much.
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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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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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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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