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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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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.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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