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Also known as Sir Angus Wilson, Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson

British author (1913–1991)

Person · Open Library

Born
1913
Died
1991
Works
102

Top works

  • Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
  • Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
  • The seven deadly sins
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • Émile Zola, an introductory study of his novels

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1934-06-09
Active to
1984-01-21
chicago soulclassic souldoo-wopnorthern soulpoppop soul

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
31
Total plays
1,508

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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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