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I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Australia
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India
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White
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Salman
Rushdie
Patrick
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Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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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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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
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Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.
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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 am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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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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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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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
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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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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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