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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
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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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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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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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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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.
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Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
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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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My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
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