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A busybody's work is never done.

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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I don't write books inadvertently.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.
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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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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.
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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
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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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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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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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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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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 might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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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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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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