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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William Golding
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
William Golding
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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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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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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We're not savages. We're English.
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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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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
