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They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
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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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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
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