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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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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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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.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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