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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.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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William Gerald Albert Golding
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If I blow the conch and they don't come back then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
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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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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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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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His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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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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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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