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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.

William Golding

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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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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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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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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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