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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
- William Golding
#Escape
#Ideas
#Three
#Violence
#World
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
- William Golding
#Critique
#Human
#Inspection
#Our
#State
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
- William Golding
#Accept
#Science
#Sexy
#Travel
#War
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
- William Golding
#Flying
#High
#Sleep
#Upset
#Wind
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
- William Golding
#Book
#Forget
#He
#Knows
#Should
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
- William Golding
#Common Sense
#Life
#Love
#People
#Why
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
- William Golding
#Childhood
#Disease
#Grow
#Out
#Sickness
I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.
- William Golding
#Am
#Discipline
#I Am
#Ignore
#Spiritual
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
- William Golding
#Does
#Done
#Him
#Man
#Others
If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
- William Golding
#Down
#Group
#Human
#Land
#Society
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all.
- William Golding
#Boy
#Grades
#Myself
#Stranger
#Thinking
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
- William Golding
#Gray
#Me
#Shoulder
#Step
#Walk
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.
- William Golding
#Bicycle
#Fall
#Journey
#Life
#Man
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
- William Golding
#Always
#Because
#I Am
#Nature
#Sort
#Understood
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
- William Golding
#After
#Best
#Everything
#Got
#Obey
#Rules
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
- William Golding
#Experience
#Fits
#Language
#Like
#Over
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
- William Golding
#Bee
#Evil
#Honey
#Man
#Produces
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
- William Golding
#Believe
#Man
#Society
#War
#World
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
- William Golding
#He
#Must
#Patience
#Sails
#Sea
#Who
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
- William Golding
#Always
#Far
#Foolish
#Men
#Women
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