A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and former columnist for the London Evening Standard, and has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1950
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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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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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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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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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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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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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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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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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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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We were told to be aggressive. That's the way a lot of our hitters hit. We didn't have a lot of guys that walked. No one ever had a problem with it.
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We are excited to have John attend the event, ... It gives local people an opportunity to meet him in an informal setting and getting to know John is getting to appreciate what an outstanding premier he can be for our province.
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I thought we would play better. I don't know if it's the stigma about their personnel, the status of what they've got. I don't know if that affects us or not. We feel like we can play with them, yet it hasn't happened.
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I think the people we are counting on to step up will be ready to go.
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His opinion seemed to form pretty quickly that this group is not responding so we'll have to look elsewhere, so they searched for interstate players and by and large they failed.