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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

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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.

~William Golding

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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

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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.

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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

~William Golding

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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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 19th, 1911

Died: June 19th, 1993

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