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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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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.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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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.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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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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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
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What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
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