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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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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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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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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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