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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Newquay
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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