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My father was very musical, a...

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

William Golding 119 quotes

I suppose I'd have to say tha...

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

William Golding 119 quotes

Kill the pig. Cut her throat....

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

William Golding 119 quotes

I'm not a critic so much of m...

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

William Golding 119 quotes

The novel is very much alive,...

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

William Golding 119 quotes

Latin, as we all know, ultima...

Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

William Golding 119 quotes

Then you have people coming u...

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

William Golding 119 quotes

I think they've got 250 langu...

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

William Golding 119 quotes

I suppose drama can either ta...

I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

William Golding 119 quotes

Put simply the novel stands b...

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

William Golding 119 quotes

I also know Patrick White in ...

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

William Golding 119 quotes

To be in a world which is a he...

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 -- 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.

William Golding 119 quotes

Life's scientific, but we don'...

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

William Golding 119 quotes

Which is better -- to be a pac...

Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

William Golding 119 quotes

We're all mad, the whole damne...

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.

William Golding 119 quotes

Life should serve up its feast...

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

William Golding 119 quotes

He who rides the sea of the Ni...

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Golding 119 quotes

My yesterdays walk with me. Th...

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

William Golding 119 quotes

Language fits over experience ...

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

William Golding 119 quotes

Among the virtues and vices th...

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding 119 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....