"Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back."
"I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest."
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Source: Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.370, Diversion Books
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