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Colin Wilson [1931-2013] English

Rank: 103
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Colin Henry Wilson was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal.

Change, Famous, Power, Romantic

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.	Change, Power	101
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.		102
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.	Famous	103
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.		104
Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.		105
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.		106
The complex develops out of the simple.		107
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.	Romantic	108
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.		109
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.		110
What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.		111
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.		112
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.		113

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