Colin Wilson Quotes

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated?

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In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle.

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors

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What it means basically is that you're able to focus until you suddenly experience that sense that everything is good

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One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too many things,.. And if they can't typecast you as a writer on this or that, then I'm afraid you tend not to be understood at all.

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I wanted the hands to reach out to help the people who were hurt in the hurricane,.. And I wrote down the year on the button so everyone would remember it was this year.

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I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

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