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William Golding Inspirational Quotes (134)

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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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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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We're not savages. We're English.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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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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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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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.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either. Piggy paused. Unless— Ralph moved restlessly. Unless what? Unless we get frightened of people.
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