Quotes by A. N. Wilson - Page 2

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Manage
Nearly
Journalists
Published
Recently
Slightly
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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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Education
Circles
Intellectual
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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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Self
Towns
Upper Class
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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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Kings
Queens
Abbey
Eerie
Perspective
Tourists
Vivid
Westminster
Thoughts
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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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Diets
Suffering
Vegetarian Diet
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Jobs
Sad
Men
Ability
Brilliant
Deny
Flair
Great Business
Innovative
Marketing
Widows
Aged
Widow
Highly
Steve
Technician
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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War
Book
Mistake
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Astonishing
Green
Holiday
Paid
Pleasure
Pure
Weeks
Indulging
Sent
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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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Christian
Church
Listening
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Space
Human Existence
Intellectual
Mother
Mysterious
Time Space Me
Explanations
Cluster
Space Time Me
Materialist
Purely
Short Space
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Computer
Doubt
Easier
Faster
Mass
No Doubt
Paper
Apple
Apple Ii
Launch
Market
Mass Market
Produced
Screen
Telephone
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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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Morning
Active
Lunch
Monsters
Mussolini
Stalin
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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.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Wise
Men
Advice
Bewildered
Moments
Practice
Return
Shy
Unbelief
Years
Years Ago
Young Man
Admit
Archbishop
Followed
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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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Birthday
Smile
Age
Brain
Brain Power
Complicated
Doubt
Exercise
Female
Grows
Middle
No Doubt
Population
Proportion
School
School Days
Use
Now
Very
Bodily
Days
Improves
Indeed
Large
Middle Age
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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Dragons
Giants
Grammar
Harry Potter
Monsters
Stories
Nearly
Depend
George
Towards
Harry
Inner
Jack
Leads
Monster
Potter
Shape
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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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Family
Queens
Bedroom
Breakfast
House
Philip
Royal Family
Spouse
Together
All Day
Round
Houses
Queen
Shared
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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Jobs
Men
Chores
Feminism
Paid
Responsibility
Spite
Unselfish
Advances
Nearly
Bulk
Households
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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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Angel
Arrogant
Believe
Boxes
Diaries
Human Life
Letters
Liars
Statements
Life Truth Believe
Bank
Photographs
Recording
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
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Acceptance
Light
People
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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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Army
Black
Reality
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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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Clock
Combination
Doubt
England
Irony
Joy
Nevertheless
No Doubt
Peculiar
People
Sadness
Sentimental
Typical
Music Joy People
Bell
English People
Piece
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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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Jesus
Christ
Christian
Sunday
Life Faith Religion
Breaking
Christians
Every Sunday
Perfectly
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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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Cheer
Features
Green
Past
Political
Possibility
Bad Thing
Counter
Cheers
Chubby
Classics
Harmless
In The Past
Notions
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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.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Christ
Church
Clock
Intense
Mad
Memories
Night
Oxford
Regret
Towers
Great Me Night
Booming
Great Memories Me
Rare
Inextricably
Interwoven
Joys
Regrets
Pm
Rare Occasions
Sends
Tom
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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
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Class
People
Water
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