Damnation Quote by Angus Wilson

““You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam ””

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

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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…

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Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

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Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

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“...Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.”

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“Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.”

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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…

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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…

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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 roots of art and play lie very close together.

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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…

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