Colin Wilson Quotes
Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.
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There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
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Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
