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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
~ William Golding
Childhood
Disease
Grow
Out
Sickness
You
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
~ William Golding
He
Must
Nile
Patience
Rides
Sails
Sea
Who
Woven
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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
~ William Golding
Experience
Fits
Language
Like
Over
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
~ William Golding
Faces
Gray
Keep
Me
Over
Peer
Shoulder
Step
Walk
Yesterdays
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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
Birds
Carpentry
Daily
Job
Level
Much
Nature
Novelists
Part
Push
Routine
Should
Sing
Some
Stuff
Write
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
~ William Golding
Flying
High
Out
Sleep
Stuff
Upset
Wind
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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.
~ William Golding
Bicycle
Does
Fall
Get
Got
He
Journey
Know
Life
Like
Man
Move
Moving
Off
Point
Riding
Some
Started
Stop
Stops
Will
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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
Book
Forget
He
Immediately
Knows
Meant
Should
Writer
Written
Wrote
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
~ William Golding
Does
Done
Him
Man
Others
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A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
~ William Golding
Action
After
Again
Available
Back
Before
Book
Choose
Down
Friendly
Go
Humble
Lasts
Lifetime
Look
Novel
Off
On And Off
Pace
Put
Read
Skip
Story
Switched
Take
Taken
Up
Whatever
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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.
~ William Golding
After
Again
Because
Before
Believe
Believed
Correct
Could
Did
Goodwill
I Believe
Ills
Man
Possible
Produced
Remove
Same
Second
Second World War
Social
Society
Something
Structure
Therefore
Unable
War
World
World War
World War I
You
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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
Another
Anything
Before
Book
Books
Bottle
Boy
Categories
Divide
Evaluate
Fiction
He
Know
Knows
Label
Mixture
Rather
Risk
Science
Science Fiction
Section
Sexy
Sort
Than
Travel
War
Westerns
Will
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I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.
~ William Golding
Am
Consider
Dimension
Discipline
Forces
Him
I Am
Ignore
Optimistic
Scientist
Spiritual
Spiritual Dimension
Which
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I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
~ William Golding
Always
Am
Because
I Am
Nature
Sort
Understood
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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.
~ William Golding
Above
Among
Been
Cannot
Common
Countries
Examining
Found
Invariably
Leaders
Life
Love
Many
One Thing
Own
People
Peril
Rulers
Same
Sense
Shared
The One Thing
Thing
Understand
Why
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I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.
~ William Golding
Appeared
Been
Child
Course
Deal
First
Grownups
How
I Remember
Incomprehensible
Me
Must
Remember
Them
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
~ William Golding
Always
Been
Equal
Far
Foolish
I Think
Men
Pretend
Superior
Think
Women
Women Are
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I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.
~ William Golding
Afterlife
Me
Much
Rather
Really
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Years
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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.
~ William Golding
Beings
Boy
Down
Girl
Group
Human
Human Beings
Land
Like
Little
Little Girls
More
Society
Than
Version
Would
Would-Be
You
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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
~ William Golding
Bee
Evil
Honey
Man
Produces
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William Golding
Profession
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BirthDate
19 September, 1911
DeathDate
19 June, 1993
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