Angus Wilson

Quotes

• “"God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction," she said. "It's different with us, I haven't been to mass for years, I've got every mortal sin on my conscience, but I know when I'm doing wrong. I'm still a Catholic, it's there, nothing can take it away from me." "Of course, duckie," said Jeremy... "once a Catholic always a Catholic."”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “All writers know aspects of life that they take very much for granted, that yet to their readers appear peculiar, special.”
• “In writing novels I have never been able to place much importance upon the distinction between real and imagined. A novelist, it seems to me, makes as much or as little use of the real world as he needs to project his vision of life.”
• “[T]he impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”

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