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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

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
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Life
Partly
Discovery
Communication
Rest
Inspirational
Art

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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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 do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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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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I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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