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Angus Wilson
Age: 77 †
Born: 1913
Born: August 11
Died: 1991
Died: May 31
Librarian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Bexhill on Sea
Sir Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson
Catholic
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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.
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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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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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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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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 roots of art and play lie very close together.
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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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Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
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