"I don't think you can tell the objective……" — A. N. Wilson
"I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels."
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66 Quotes by A. N. Wilson
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that…
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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop…
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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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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it…
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled…
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He…
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