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)
Once a Catholic always a Catholic. View quote
Angus Wilson
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. View quote
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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. View quote
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Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it. View quote
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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. View quote
Angus Wilson
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. View quote
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His fiction – radical, satirical, polyvalent, sexually courageous, global – extended the mainstream novel, and led it somewhere else. Still not fully recognized, he was one of Britain's greatest late-twentieth-century writers. View quote
Angus Wilson
When was reviewing Doris Lessing's last two books from the Shikasta series, I found that she has discovered what I, to my great joy, had discovered a little earlier: that (a) if you're writing what they call science fiction, you're absolutely free-you can write anything you damn please, and (b) that if you take seriously the science fiction premise, you are furnished with an inexhaustable supply of absolutely beautiful and complex metaphors for our present situation, for who and where we are now, and I think it's not only women who have found this out. Angus Wilson was one of the first to do this with The Old Man in the Zoo years ago. That is a science fiction novel, if you look at it closely. View quote
Angus Wilson