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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."

"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."

"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."

"The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying."

"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."

"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
Explore more quotes by William Golding

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
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