A. N. Wilson Quotes (61 quotes)

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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.“
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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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„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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„I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.“
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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 do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.“
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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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„If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.“
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„When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.“
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„Truth comes to us mediated by human love.“
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„The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'“
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„The scribbler's life is never done.“
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„The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.“
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„Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.“
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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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„Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.“
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„People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.“
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„Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.“
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„Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.“
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„I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.“
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A. N. Wilson
Author born: October 27, 1950
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Writer

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