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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
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Are we savages or what?
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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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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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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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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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