Colin Wilson Quotes
And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.
