#com

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#had #i #liking #out #rooms

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

#computer #every #i #laptop #massage

Anti-Semitism is extremely common. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#common #extremely

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

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

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

— A. N. Wilson

#companion #grownup #life

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#becomes #began #complicated #ever #first

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#because #become #doing #else #incapable

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#apple ii #been #computer #done #doubt

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me