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William Golding
Sir William Golding (19 September1911 – 19 June1993) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet most famous for his novel Lord of the Flies. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
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- The Herr Doctor does not know about peoples.
- Free Fall (1959), last line
- The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
- Interview with Frank Kermode, BBC Third Programme (28 April 1959)
- Basically I'm an optimist.I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men.
Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see this any way but intellectually. I'm just emotionally unable to believe that he will do this. This means