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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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
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I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
William Golding
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.
William Golding
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
William Golding
It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
William Golding
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
William Golding
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
William Golding
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
William Golding
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
William Golding
I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
William Golding
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
William Golding
The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
William Golding
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
William Golding
A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
William Golding
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
William Golding
I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
William Golding