“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.”
— A. N. Wilson
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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.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”
— A. N. Wilson
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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.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.”
— 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 a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
— A. N. Wilson
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