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Colin Wilson Quotes

English - Writer | June 26, 1931 - December 5, 2013

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

Rain Man Cow Average Standing

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Change Power Mind World Hands Same

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

Play Stage Symphony Parts Instead

The complex develops out of the simple.

Simple Out Complex Develops

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Romantic World Books Teenager Total

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

Foundation Philosophy Create New Try

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

Work Past Optimism You Person Well

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

Work Me You Feeling Wrong Human

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

Ideas Afraid English Interested

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Fun People Famous You Lose Privacy

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Me London Going Would Writer Stayed

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

Hard Always Over Pretty Been Books

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