William Golding
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding CBEwas a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 September 1911
together disharmony
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
wise fall heart
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
beast lord
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
laughter language
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
slipping world lord
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
passionate ease opinion
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
adults
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
savages
Are we savages or what?
news beast horrible
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
teeth movement lord
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
conscious treated oneself
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
particular
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
savages
We're not savages. We're English.
kind humans persons
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?