William Golding (1911–1993) British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Interview in regard to his work Rites of Passage, quoted in The Dreams of William Golden, BBC Arena (2012)
“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”
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