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We're not savages. We're English.
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
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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English
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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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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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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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
William Golding
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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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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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'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
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My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
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Are we savages or what?
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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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