A. N. Wilson Quotes

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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, Responsibility, Men

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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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• A busybody's work is never done.

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  Done, Busybodies

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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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  Vegetarian Diet, Suffering, Diets

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• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

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  Men, Research, Higher

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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, Listening, Church

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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, Reality, Black

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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

  The Guardian, September 30, 1989.

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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, School, Exercise

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• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Annoyed

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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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  Writing, Thinking, People

  "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

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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, Mistake, Book

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• I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

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  Thinking, People, Regimes

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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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• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

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  Thinking, Opposites, History

  A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

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• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

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  Thinking, Modern Life, Tests

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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, Eerie

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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, House

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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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  Thinking, Might, Deceiving

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

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  Irises, Influence, Novel

  "I'm Mr Evil". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

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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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  God, Dad, Mean

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• I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

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  Book, Helping, Interest

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• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

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  Children, Remarkable, Dictatorship

  "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

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• The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

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  Math, Insatiable Hunger, Awakening

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• We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

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  Formal, Worthy, Organized

  A. N. Wilson (1991). “Against religion”, Vintage

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