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The beast was harmless and horrible and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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People don't help much.
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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We're not savages. We're English.
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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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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
William Golding
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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