Colin Wilson Quotes
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.
