A. N. Wilson Quotes (17 quotes)

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„The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.“
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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 think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.“
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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. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.“
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„Truth comes to us mediated by human love.“
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„Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.“
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„The scribbler's life is never done.“
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„Anti-Semitism is extremely common.“
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„Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.“
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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 wanted passionately to be a priest.“
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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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„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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„People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.“
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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.“
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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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„Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.“
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A. N. Wilson
Author born: October 27, 1950
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Writer

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