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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
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
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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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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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