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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.

Source: Belief and Creativity, lecture, 11 Apr, 1980.
-- William Golding, (Sep 19 1911-1993), English novelist; He was best known for his allegorical cult novel, The Lord of the Flies, 1954; won the Nobel Prize in Lit., 1983.

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