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Colin Wilson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: June 26, 1931 - December 5, 2013

Topics

Work Me You Feeling Wrong Human

I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

Business Sports Great Parents People

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Change Be Prepared Living Must

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John F. Kennedy

Live History Will Lived Would Like

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

Challenge Fun Writing Think Aim

The best way we serve the people we admire is to tell them the truth.

Truth Best People Admire Way Tell

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

Sunset Feel Way More Out Complex

There are many different ways we can choose to reduce our carbon impacts.

Choose Different Carbon Our Many

'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.

First Film Agent

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

Time New York City Name Go New

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

Good End Trying Years System Beat

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

Christopher Buckley

Identity People Think Name See

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Government Impossible Made He Did

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