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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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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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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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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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