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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

William Golding

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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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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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I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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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.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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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