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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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People don't help much.
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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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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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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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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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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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