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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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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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Are we savages or what?
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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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I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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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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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
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I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
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