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Vote: | 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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Vote: | My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. |
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Vote: | Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. |
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Vote: | Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. |
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Vote: | The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. |
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Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19 1911 - June 19 1993) was an English novelist and poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."
Early life Born on September 19, 1911 at St. Columb Minor, a village near Newquay, Cornwall. He started writing at the age of seven. His Cornish background has been rarely commented on, but he came to learn Cornish as a young man.
His father was a local school master and an intellectual, who had radical convictions in politics
and a strong faith in science. The family moved to Marlborough and he attended Marlborough Grammar School. He later went to Oxford University (Brasenose College) in 1930, where he studied natural sciences and English language. His first book, a collection of poems, appeared a year before Golding received his BA.
He married Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, in 1939. He became a teacher of English and philosophy at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury.
During World War II he served in the Royal Navy and was involved in the sinking of Germany's mightiest battleship, the Bismarck. He participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and at war's end went back to teaching and writing.
In 1961 his successful books allowed Golding to leave his teaching post and he spent a year as writer-in-residence at Hollins College in Virginia. He then became a full-time writer.
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