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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

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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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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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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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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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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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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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.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
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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 think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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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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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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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.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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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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