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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
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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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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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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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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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
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A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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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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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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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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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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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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