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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.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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William Gerald Albert Golding
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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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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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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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We're not savages. We're English.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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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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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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 really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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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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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
William Golding
