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You'll get back to where you came from.

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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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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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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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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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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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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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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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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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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