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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

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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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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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 should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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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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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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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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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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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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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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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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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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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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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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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 very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
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