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• Tengo que confesar algo. El amor de mi vida ha sido la lengua griega. He llegado a una edad en la que se me ha ocurrido que puede que haya leído algunos libros por última vez. De repente pensé que hay libros que no soportaría no volver a leer antes de morir. Uno de los más destacados es la Ilíada de Homero.

  William Golding

  Book, Greek, Age

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• The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

  William Golding

  Wise, Thinking, Trouble

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

  William Golding

  Successful, Novel

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• The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

  William Golding

  Who Cares, Care

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.106, Al Manhal

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• Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

  William Golding

  Writing, Sound, Hats

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• Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

  William Golding

  Cutting, Pigs, Piggy

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.82, Hamilton Books

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• Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

  William Golding

  Believe, Mean, Nuts

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• The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.

  William Golding

  Eye, White, Numbers

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.100, Hamilton Books

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• Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

  William Golding

  Libro, Carácter, Hombres

  William Golding's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1983.

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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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  Escritura, Gente, Mente

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• I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

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  Play, Names, Numbers

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• I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

  William Golding

  Piano, Years, Play

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• Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

  William Golding

  Listening, Literature, Lists

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• One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.

  William Golding

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Gente

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• In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

  William Golding

  India, Odd Things, Floating

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• Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

  William Golding

  Mother, Attractive, Mice

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.71, Al Manhal

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• People don't help much.

  William Golding

  Personas, Ayuda

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.64, Al Manhal

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• Simon se volvió inarticulado en su esfuerzo por expresar la enfermedad esencial de la humanidad.

  William Golding

  Effort, Essentials, Illness

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.63, Hamilton Books

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• His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

  William Golding

  Memories, Struggle, Taken

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

  William Golding

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

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• You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

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  Irises, Generations, Scene

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• He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

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  Exercise, Mastery, Tides

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• 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.

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  Conscious, Treated, Representatives

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• The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

  William Golding

  Skulls, Answers, Knows

  "Lord of the Flies".

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• Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

  William Golding

  Filosofía, Soplar, Viento

  William Golding (1980). “Rites of Passage”

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