Colin Wilson Quotes

Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
English Writer
Born: Jun 26, 1931
Died: Dec 5, 2013
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Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson
Man Rain Miseries Disasters Accepting Cow Stoicism Conformist Average Average Man Standing
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson
Change World Mind Power Exactly Exactly The Same Merely Hands Same Grasp
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. Colin Wilson
World Teenager Books Total Escapist Romantic
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. Colin Wilson
Work You Past Temperament Kinds Rather Shallow Fact Had Allowing Cheerful Well Sort Because Been Errors Optimism Person Oh Just Establish In Fact Wanted Whereas Happen Regarded In The Past Your Pessimists Who Creep
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings. Colin Wilson
Work Me You Feeling All My Work Something Wrong Human Human Beings Asked Beings Basically Basis
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. Colin Wilson
Totally Writer Ideas Afraid Interested English Basically
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books. Colin Wilson
Hundred Books Pretty Written Over Always How Been Worker Hard Hard Worker

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