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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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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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