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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

William Golding

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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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If I blow the conch and they don't come back then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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People don't help much.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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