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It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
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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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.
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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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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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Are we savages or what?
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either. Piggy paused. Unless— Ralph moved restlessly. Unless what? Unless we get frightened of people.
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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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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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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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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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