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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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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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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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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 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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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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