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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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William Gerald Albert Golding
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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.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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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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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.
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