“A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.”
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Colin Henry Wilson was a British author who had written works on philosophy, true crime, and mysticism, as well as novels. He was born and raised in Leicester, England, the son of a factory worker. He attended school until he was 16, at which point he quit to work in a wool warehouse. He worked other odd jobs, including as a lab assistant and a civil servant, until he was called up to work as a clerk for the Royal Air Force. He worked there for six months until claiming that he was a homosexual in order to be dismissed. In 1956, his first book, *The Outsider*, was published.
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“A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.”
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“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio mig...”
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“The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a...”
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“If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.”
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“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
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“When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.”
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“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...”
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“If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.”
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