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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
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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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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I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
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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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The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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The beast was harmless and horrible and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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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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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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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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It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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