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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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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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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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If I blow the conch and they don't come back then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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
