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"I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Thought Of The Day #Turn Off #Turns
"The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Approach #Mind
"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
#Bedroom #Walks #Together
"My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Book #Writing #Toby
"I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Collapse #Tied #Windsor
"I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Book #Publishers #Interest
"Anti-Semitism is extremely common."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Anti Semitism #Common
"I wanted passionately to be a priest."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Wanted #Priests
"I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Dining Table #Dining #Tables
"The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists."
--- A. N. Wilson
#People #Really Clever #Lawyer
"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Math #Reasoning #Awakening
"Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed."
--- A. N. Wilson
#World #Physics #Relativity
"In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Green #Might #Features
"My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die."
--- A. N. Wilson
#People #Known #Acceptance
"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
#Lunch #Morning #Active
"I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Massage #Politician #Recycling
"Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Patron #Poet #Admire
"Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Feels #Shadow #Writing
"If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Howl #Annoyed #Honey
"I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Feels #Doubters #Intolerance
"I don't write books inadvertently."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Book #Writing
"IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Thinking #Complicated #Tests
"History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Lays #History #Landmines
"Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Seeming #Reciting #Contradiction
"I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Belief #Boring
"I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Thinking #Annoying #Catholic
"Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Explanation #Existence #Convinced
"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
#Paid #Share #Stills
"Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Irises #Influence #Novel
"It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Organised #Remarkable #Dictatorship
"On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes."
--- A. N. Wilson
#College #Memories #Regret
"As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated."
--- A. N. Wilson
#Idiotic #What Matters #Creeds
"I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels."
--- A. N. Wilson
#People #Thinking #Writing
"I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy."
--- A. N. Wilson
#People #Thinking #Made
"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
#Late #60th Birthday #School Days

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