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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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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We're not savages. We're English.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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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 rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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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 here and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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