Angus Wilson Quotes

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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

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.

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The natural habit of any good and critical reader is to disbelieve what you are telling him and try to escape out of the world you are picturing.

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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery—a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

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People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

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I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Angus Wilson

Angus Wilson

Angus Wilson

Born: August 11, 1913

Died: May 31, 1991 (aged 77)

Bio: Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.

Known for:

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956)
Hemlock and After (1952)
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot (1958)
Wrong set, and other stories (1949)
The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)

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