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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
Sir William Gerald Golding
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More quotes by William Golding
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
William Golding
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
William Golding
Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
William Golding
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
William Golding
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
William Golding
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
William Golding
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
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
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
William Golding
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
William Golding
You'll get back to where you came from.
William Golding
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
William Golding
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
William Golding
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.
William Golding
