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message 1: by Bruce (last edited Sep 19, 2021 05:04AM) (new)

Sep 19, 2021 05:03AM

This page attributes a quote to William Golding
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9387...

In fact, only the first two sentences are his.

The rest is a quote from another author altogether, viz., Erick Gray. In fact, that part of the quote is correctly attributed on a different page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

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