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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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Staffordshire
Andrew Norman 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.
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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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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
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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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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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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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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 I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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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.
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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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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'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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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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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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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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