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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Newquay
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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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 conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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