Driving Towards Quotes by Colin Wilson

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• The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.
• As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the…
• Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
• Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a…
• The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
• It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as…
• It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is…
• 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…
• The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
• A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
• The complex develops out of the simple.

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