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

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  Men, Research, Higher

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Wise, Men, Years

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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, Monsters, Giants

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• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

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  Believe, House, Church

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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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• 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, Lunch, Monsters

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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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• 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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• I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

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  Thinking, Church, Loyal

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• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

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  Mind, Approach

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