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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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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 do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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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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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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The beast was harmless and horrible and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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