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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
William Golding
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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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His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
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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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
William Golding
I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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