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Angus Wilson quotes: People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

Angus Wilson quotes: The roots of art and play lie very close together.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

Angus Wilson quotes: The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

Angus Wilson quotes: Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

Angus Wilson quotes: The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

Angus Wilson quotes: The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson quotes: You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.Raspberry Jam

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
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Angus Wilson quotes: Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.

Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.

Angus Wilson quotes: I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson quotes: All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Angus Wilson quotes: Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Angus Wilson quotes: Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell ... it loses its force for me.

Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell ... it loses its force for me.

Angus Wilson quotes: Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Angus Wilson quotes: Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Angus Wilson quotes: But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.

But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.

Angus Wilson quotes: 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.