English - Novelist | September 19, 1911 - June 19, 1993
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
William Golding
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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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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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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.
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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.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
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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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When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.
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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.
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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.
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