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A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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Andrew Norman Wilson
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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