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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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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.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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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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