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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

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
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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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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Are we savages or what?
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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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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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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.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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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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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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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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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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