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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.
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
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either. Piggy paused. Unless— Ralph moved restlessly. Unless what? Unless we get frightened of people.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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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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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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