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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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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.
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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 trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
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Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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