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A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.

~William Golding

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If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.

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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

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I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

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When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.

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Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

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I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.

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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

~William Golding

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 19th, 1911

Died: June 19th, 1993

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