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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.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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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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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.
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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'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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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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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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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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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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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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