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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

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

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.

From William Golding

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.

From William Golding

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

From William Golding

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.

From William Golding

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.

From William Golding

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

From William Golding

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

From William Golding

William Golding

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