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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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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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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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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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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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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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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
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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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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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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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 beast was harmless and horrible and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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