Quotes by Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

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

Actors

Play

Symphony

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

Lines

Men

World

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn’t know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

Driving

Outsiders

Want

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

Mean

People

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Horizon

Longing

Perversion

Criminals interest me, because they’re driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Criminals

Desire

Real

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Animal

Men

Reality

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. . . . Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

Garden

Men

Strong

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.

Hero

People

Thinking

I’ve always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

Outsiders

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Actors

Alcohol

America

Animal

Bases

Believe

Car

Conflict

Criminals

Cutting

Desire

Destiny

Discipline

Driving

Easy

Evil

Feelings

Feet

Found

Fun

Garden

Glasses

Hands

Hangover

He Man

Hero

Horizon

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Intelligent

Kind

Knows

Language

Lasts

Laurels

Laziness

Light

Lines

Listening

Literature

London

Longing

Mean

Men

Needs

Objectivity

Outsiders

Party

Passion

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Quotes by Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson

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

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn’t know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

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.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Criminals interest me, because they’re driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

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.

I’ve always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

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