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A. N. Wilson

English Writer

Born: Oct 27, 1950

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. A. N. Wilson

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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. A. N. Wilson

People Clever Lawyers Journalists Clever People Want Really Now

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. A. N. Wilson

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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. A. N. Wilson

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The scribbler's life is never done. A. N. Wilson

Life Never Done

A busybody's work is never done. A. N. Wilson

Work Never Done

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. A. N. Wilson

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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. A. N. Wilson

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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. A. N. Wilson

Death Myself Fear Think Inordinate Deceiving Might

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. A. N. Wilson

Hunger Insatiable Logic Fact Almost Irrational Cannot Us Awakens Satisfy

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. A. N. Wilson

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. A. N. Wilson

Good Entirely Never Very Did Influence Much Novels Early

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch. A. N. Wilson

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. A. N. Wilson

Everyone Shadow Oneself Writes Feels Whether Tolstoy

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England. A. N. Wilson

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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father. A. N. Wilson

Father Think Annoy Catholic Became

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations. A. N. Wilson

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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. A. N. Wilson

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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen. A. N. Wilson

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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. A. N. Wilson

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