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

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Source : Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.422, Faber & Faber

Angus Wilson

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“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”
“Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.”

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“And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.”
“God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.”
“There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.”
“I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.”
“Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing
“In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.”

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