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A. N. Wilson

(1950) Historian

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A. N. Wilson is a historian.

Quick Facts About A. N. Wilson

Born: October 27, 1950
Profession: Historian

About A. N. Wilson

[Wikidata] British poet, biographer, critic, journalist writer and newspaper columnist (1950-)... | [Wikipedia] Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He has written more than 30 books of non-fiction and more than 20 works of fiction. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail, and a former columnist and

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

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

Frightening

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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

Been

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I've got nothing very original to say myself.

Creativity

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I wanted passionately to be a priest.

Priests

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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely…

Cluster

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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

Consciousness

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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

Christian

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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Death

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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New…

Christ

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

Books

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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated…

Circles

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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…

Achieve

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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…

Age

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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…

Apple

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

Higher

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The scribbler's life is never done.

Done

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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

Anti semitism

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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…

Suffering

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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with…

Asks

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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.

Dad

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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…

Collectives

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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.

Complicated

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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.

Austen

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We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

British history

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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

About

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A. N. Wilson by topic

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