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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.
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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Piggy
Everything
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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.
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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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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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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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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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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?
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