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I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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
Sir William Gerald Golding
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.
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I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
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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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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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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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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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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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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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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 candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
William Golding
