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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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
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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.
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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 also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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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're not savages. We're English.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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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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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
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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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