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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

Woman Try Job Responsibility Men Feminism Spite Unselfish Share Advances Takes True Well Households Always Still Bulk Doing Modern Where Paid Who Even Chores Her Nearly

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

Church Believe Collapse Windsor House Tied England

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

Happy Queen Passion Reading Glorious Illustrations Mine Has-Been Laurence About Since Came Been Child Victoria Across Play

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

People Queen Political Giving President Would Some Only Had Support Powers Intellectual Linguistic Elected Skills Many Her Elizabeth Elizabeth I

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

First Doubt Faster Market Telephone Paper Easier Launch No Doubt Computer Mass Since Mass Market Been Done Screen Which Produced Used Many Apple Apple II Things

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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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind. A. N. Wilson

Death Mind Approach Certainly

I've got nothing very original to say myself. A. N. Wilson

Myself Nothing Say Got Very Original

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught. A. N. Wilson

Finished Think Rubbish Gets Taught Personally Much Universities

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? Abraham Polonsky

Love Alone You Do You Know Like Know To Love

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O! Abraham Polonsky

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