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The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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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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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 do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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