Angus Wilson Quotes

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 11, 1913 - 1991

Topics

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I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

Joe Gebbia

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When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

John Burnside

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To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

Anders Holm

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What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

John Updike

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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Sophocles

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I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Mike Leigh

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I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

Jason Patric

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The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Jonathan Sacks

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It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

Dennis Ross

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I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean's Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

Colman Domingo

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