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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
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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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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
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The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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