Angus Wilson quotes
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“Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.”
-- Angus WilsonSource : Angus Wilson (1962). “The seven deadly sins”, Beaufort Books
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“The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.”
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“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 WilsonSource : "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews". Book edited by Malcolm Cowley, First Series, New York: Viking Press, p. 261, 1959.
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“All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.”
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“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”
-- Angus WilsonSource : Angus Wilson (1963). “The Wild Garden: Or, Speaking of Writing”, p.149, Univ of California Press
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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 WilsonSource : Angus Wilson (2015). “The Old Men at the Zoo”, p.7, Faber & Faber
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“Once a Catholic always a Catholic.”
-- Angus WilsonSource : 'The Wrong Set' (1949) p. 168
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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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“I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.”
-- Angus WilsonSource : Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.422, Faber & Faber
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“Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.”
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“The roots of art and play lie very close together.”
-- Angus WilsonSource : Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.46, Faber & Faber
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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.”
-- Angus WilsonSource : Angus Wilson, Kerry McSweeney (1984). “Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson”, Viking Adult
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