Colin Wilson
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"Colin Henry Wilson" was a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25367040 "Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82"]

BBC News, 13th December 2013. Retrieved 15th December 2013. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenology (archaeology)/phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism.”

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

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[He has been forced to test his own powers in this area enormously over the past year.] When I was pretty sure that the autobiography was going to be a great success, ... and when it, on the contrary, got viciously attacked... well, I know I'm not wrong. Obviously the times are out of joint.

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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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What it means basically is that you're able to focus until you suddenly experience that sense that everything is good.

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The problem is everywhere. You're never going to get away from it.

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I wanted the hands to reach out to help the people who were hurt in the hurricane, ... And I wrote down the year on the button so everyone would remember it was this year.

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One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too many things, ... and if they can't typecast you as a writer on this or that, then I'm afraid you tend not to be understood at all.

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The complex develops out of the simple.

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Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

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